Report of Amn Tehrik(Peace Movement) steering committee meeting

During the meeting the participants from various areas of militants concerned over the passive and deregulatory attitudes of Security forces with the residents as they were interfering in their affairs while they also humiliating the people when they hesitate. The participants implored the Federal and provincial government to withdraw the Military forces from those areas and handed the power to the civil government as there was no any further red signals of Taliban intimidation.


Malakand Situations: There are reports that military officials are involved in promoting terrorism in Buner and Brigadier In charge is alleged to be supporting the terrorists, misbehaving with the local leaders and people. A particular religious cum political party is friendly with terrorists and some military officials are having pleasant relation with religious party in question. People affiliated with said Party and its workers are present on check posts with military in Buner. It seems that people of Buner are not less than people of Swat in terms of slavery of Pakistan Mulla and military alliance against Pakhtun. In Malakand division military is being defamed and people keep a distance with them for their people unfriendly attitude.

In Dir Malik Zarin a known pro terrorist person and military colonel are having friendly relation and a harmony is witnessed between them. Malik Zarin has been a famous Afghan war lord who has a strong linking with a pro terrorist religious organization and fought in Afghanistan during 80s. This man has occupied the lands of the people in dir and is still very much active to promote terrorism in area. People of Jandol held Jirgas several times against the atrocities but to no effect. In Malakand division the political parties are weak while religious parties, organizations and Jehadi out fits are active and getting strength with each passing day. Terrorist has kidnapped several people of Amn lashkar in Kohistan, District Dir/ Chitarl. In this regard Sultankhel and Paindakhel Quami Jirga have approached held several Jirgas but bore no fruit because the pro terrorist man is very powerful who is strongly supported by the military and a pro militant religious organization in area. In mid nights aerial firings are heard which further frighten the residents and disturb the sleeps of the people especially women and children. In Balambat, the situations are deteriorated and terrorism is tried to be promoted.

In Swat there are reports that civilians are not allowed to work for the welfare of people and development of the area. In Swat skirmishes often occur between police force and military personnel.

Similarly in Peshawar, the situations are getting worse and people are worried about their future particularly of their children.
District Peshawar is surrounded by FATA where so called fake operations by military against militants are being carried out by the military. The terrorists often come to Peshawar and its suburbs where they terrorize people and in few days several schools were also blown up and others were warned to be exploded. Law and order situations are getting worse and many people were kidnapped and are being abducted with each passing day. There are reports that wealthy and well off people are migrating from Peshawar to comparatively safer areas of the country.

FATA is the burning issue regarding terrorism where terrorists have taken shelter and from where the terrorist activities are being carried out. The government tried to form a lashkar in Mehsud tribe but the people rejected it saying it is unacceptable to them as it means that lashkar people could be easily targeted by terrorists and the government gives no protection to the people in lashkar. It is evident that people have no trust in what the government is saying to them. In N. Waziristan there are 20000 Arab terrorists and 25000 Punjabi terrorists.

In FATA and other Pakhtun areas, the genocide of Pakhtun will be increasing in future. Training camps are also increasing in number in Punjab. Punjabi Taliban are upper hand in FATA. PML is equally or to say more dangerous than MMA and other religious parties in term of promotion of terrorism.

The out comes of the coalition between ISI, Military and militants will bear dangerous and lethal fruit for Pashtuns. The collective political situations of almost all FATA agencies are same and have no difference at all. An interview of Gulbadin Hikmatyar on a Pakistani private TV Channel are alarming and is believed to add fuel to already volatile situations in area.

The game is not over yet. It is a proxy war. But the battle field is the Pashtun land unfortunately. There are reports that local Taliban are deserting terrorism but due to some compulsions now they are unable to do so. Local recruitment has stopped to some extent as now people have realized gravity of situations but as was already said there are compulsions which take them to the camps. The Afghanistan issue has entered into decisive phase due to which the fighting will be getting further momentum while situations in FATA and Peshawar will get worst and peace is not seen in near future.

AF-Pak policy is being reviewed in December next which will help us to understand situations in more clarity. In Punjab NATO convoys are frequently attacked which shows that terrorism has been diverted to Punjab also.
Expressing grave concern over flood havocs in parts and parcels of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and adjacent tribal region, the Steering Committee of Amn Tehrik has urged the federal government to distribute the foreign aids and grants in according to needs and damages amongst the provinces. The meeting has also asked the high ups of the armed forces to let the civil administration for running affairs of violence and terrorism affected areas.


It was also demanded that the packages of Kerry Lugar bill should be spent on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as it was for the militant’s heated areas and there was no ambiguity that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has shattered mostly by the militant’s nasty and nefarious activities. They demanded from the Federal and provincial government to take steps for the reconstruction in Malakand and FATA. It means that Kerry-Lugar bill was for militancy related destruction and not for the flood related destruction. More than its 90% share should be given to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. If the fund in Kerry Lugar bill was not used in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA then the result of the war against terror will be negative and Pashtun will be further disgusted and disappointments and deprivations will work which will go in benefit of terrorists. A new fund which is generated for the flood affected areas should be distributed among the provinces on the basis of its damages but as for as the Kerry Lugar is concerned it’s 90 % be spent on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. The parliamentary election recently held in Afghanistanwas termed as welcoming and it was hoped that the election will further strengthen the democracy in Afghanistan which will pave the way for the peace and development in Afghanistan and region. The killing of Misri khan, President Hangu Press Club was strongly condemned. It was also demanded that regular meetings of Amn Tehrik should be held. Amn Tehrik should go to districts and people also who need the political awareness. Contacts between democratic and peace loving forces of the country is the need of the hour. The participants also condemn the abduction of Ajmal Khan vice Chancellery Islamia College University Peshawar and demanded for his release.

The role of some media channels and print media are condemnable. They are not publishing AMN TEHRIK statements and even not giving enough space to the real issues and suffering of Pakhtuns peoples.

The participants of Amn Tehrik added that conspiracies hatching for tackling the elected government would plunge the country in new political dilemma and anarchy and there would be no ambiguity that it would increased the tribulation and suffering of people as militancy and flood have dejected them in bad manner.

They said that targets killing of Pukhtun in Karachi in the other parts of the country, target killing of political workers, Journalist, Peace Committees members should stop immediately as some improvised elements have desire to irritate Pukhtun and efface them.
They maintained that Amn Tehrik would extend its peace loving agenda to the other parts of country and would stimulate people toward peace establishment in country.

Reported by
Zar ali khan musazai(Afridi)
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar/FATA

Political Administration fined students for staging a protest against arrest of their fellow student by Political Agent

It was January 7, 2010 when, in Jamrud, Khyber Agency FATA the students of various education institutions came to the streets and road after hearing that the political Administration had arrested one of their students in a so called search operation. The student was sent to jail. The students demanded of the Political Administration to release their fellow student as he was an innocent person and was never involved in subversive activities. The political Administration registered a case against 20 students leaders and fined them 50000(Pakistani Rupees) each for staging a protest against the Administration and in favor of their fellow student. Latter on 7 out of 20 students were exonerated of the fine but the rest of were ordered to deposit the fine immediately for they had violated political Administration law where there is no such permission for any body to protest on any thing happens to them. They will have to keep mum and tolerate every type of the brutality and barbarism of the Political Administration. This is called the black law of FCR which is imposed on FATA and this law does not permit any body to stage a demo, issue press release or at least to protest for some one who is incarcerated in jail for the crime he/she does not know. The political Administration convened a Jirga of the tribal Mashran and directed them to accept the bail of the students who had protested. Mashran accepted the demand of Political Agent/Assistant Political Agent at Jamrud Tehsil. There have been almost 7 months that the Mashran demand of the students to deposit the fine otherwise they will go to the jail.

In FATA where there is militancy all around. Most of the schools are closed and students suffered heavily. The economy is deteriorated. The education ratio is at lowest ebb but still the political Administration has been putting fine on the students which further alienate the students to continue study.
Tribal NGOs Consortium demands of the Political Administration to issue the order to remit the fine on students so that they could continue their study because students are always out of pockets and such financial hardships will further aggravate their problems and will create hurdles in their way to keep their study continued.

Regards
Zar Ali Khan Musazai(Afridi)
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar/FATA
tncfata@gmail.com
+92-3015963337

The following commodities are needed to help the flood victims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

Subject: The following commodities are needed to help the flood victims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

If you are willing to contribute, or know somebody who can help, please contact the following:

Besides sending cash through below mentioned Civil Society organizations, you can support by providing following commodities.
* Clothing: Clothes of various sizes, Beddings, Shoes
* Utensils: Jerricans (large plastic cans that hold 20 liters of water or other liquids), Crockery, Buckets
* Toiletries: Tissues, Soaps, Dettol (antibacterial cleaners), Towels
* Food: Rice, Sugar, Flour (Atta), Onions, Potatoes, Cooking oil, Tea, Milk (tetra packs or powder), Safe drinking water, Cooked Food

Medicines:

1. Water purification tablets.
2. Life saving drugs.
3. Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
4. Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz .
5. Antibiotics e.g. tetnus, amoxil, gentamycin.
6. IV cannulas
7. IV Drip sets
8. IV drips: normal saline, ringerlactate
9. Local anesthetics (injections)
10. Cotton bandages, cotton.
11. Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers.
12. Suturing materials, Skin staples.



Regards

Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
&
Executive Director
Society for the Rights and Development
Peshawar/FATA
+92-3159195919
+92-5253154

(Those who want to help the needy people should deposit their alms, funds etc. in the Bank Account titled: society for Rights and Development, 0959-79001513-03, Habib Bank Ltd. Peshawar Super Market, Peshawar Cantt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Branch code: 0959)

2. Citizen Rights and sustainable Development

Humanitarian Assistance, Urgent help needed

Humanitarian Assistance, Urgent help needed.

PESHAWAR, July 31: Various civil society organisations under the banner of the Network for Humanitarian Assistance have appealed to the donor agencies, federal government, political parties and philanthropists to immediately provide relief to the rains and flood-affected people.
Speaking at a joint press conference at Peshawar Press Club here on Saturday, representatives of the NGOs led by Ijaz Durrani, Idress Kamal and Zar Ali Khan said that large number of people across the province needed food, medicines and shelter on emergency basis.

It was not possible for the provincial government to meet the requirements of these people, they said, adding that it was obligation of the federal government, overseas Pakistanis, United Nations, foreign missions, international community, NGOs and well-off people to help them.

They feared that if the needy people were not supported promptly, there was a likelihood of the loss of human lives on large-scale. Immediate work, they said, was to rescue the people stranded at different buildings and provide them with food items.

Referring to the official figure of the death toll (450), they said the actual number might be much higher as, according to them, there was no access of government to the flood-hit areas and telephone network was also not functioning to get exact information.

The NGOs representatives pointed out human losses, destruction of government installations, infrastructure and livestock in Malakand, Dir, Swat, Nowshera, Charsadda, Peshawar, Fata, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Lakki Marwat, Bannu, Mansehara, Haripur and other areas.

Presently, they said, helicopters could prove useful for the transportation of relief goods, including food, to the stranded people as vehicles could not move in the floodwater and mud.

They said arrangements for the affected people were deficient and most of them were living under open sky, and could mot move as floods had swept away the link roads and bridges.
Regards

Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
&
Executive Director
Society for the Rights and Development
Peshawar/FATA
+92-3159195919

(Those who want to help the needy people should deposit their alms, funds etc. in the Bank Account titled: society for Rights and Development, 0959-79001513-03, Habib Bank Ltd. Peshawar Super Market, Peshawar Cantt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Branch code: 0959)

2. Citizen Rights and sustainable Development
A/C 1-20311-714-101707, Arif Habib Bank Ltd. Deans Trade Center, Peshawar, Cantt.

An appeal to national and international organizations, Pakhtun Diaspora, national and international community

For the last 4-days there has been raining in almost all parts and districts/Agencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA which caused a lot of destruction and devastated many houses especially huts and mud built houses. The flood caused due to heavy downpour and gushed into the settlements especially in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has demolished almost all houses and million of the inmates are stranded in water. Those who have remained stranded in their demolished houses are in miserable conditions and are having no option except to weep or pray to God to help them all. There are many instances where the family members have been divided into two parts. The parents particularly fathers have remained in the safer areas while their children who remain homes at time of the rain got stranded and are still in same condition. Those children have been weeping for the last three days and nights but there is non to come to their rescue and get them rid of this miserable condition and to take them to some safer areas and provide them with food and safe potable waters. The stranded people especially women and children are having nothing to eat as the little or small stock they had has already either finished or drained by the flood water. There are sick and old people also who are still in trouble stranded there in their houses with no medicines and other edible. This situation is not related with one or two particular area. The entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been facing with same situations and people are in great trouble. They need to be evacuated first and then other facilities and needs be provided on emergency steps. The TV Channels and other humanitarian institutions have been calling the government to come to the rescue but the situations are so worst and are out of the control that only the government will not be able to handle it alone. The governments are not capable in even shiny days to help the people how can it would be able to come in help the citizens in rainy days?
The people need food, clean drinking water, clothes, tents, edibles, Medicines, and above all their evacuation is foremost needed and for this purpose small boats are required on emergency bases to bring the stranded people out of their places to comparatively safer places and spots.


Regards

Zar ali Khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Emails: srd.org.pk@gmail.com
tncfata@gmail.com

+92-3159195919
Peshawar

Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns killing of two Christian brothers in Faisalabad

Tribal NGOs Consortium strongly condemns killing of the two Christian brothers in Faisalabad Punjab by the religious fundamentalist elements who have made the society as hostage. Killing a human being should not be justified by just saying that he or she said some blasphemous remarks against a religious entity or sacred place and book etc. There are many people in this society who have their own grudges against people of the other sect or religion. They use the religion to justify their wrongdoings but it could not be justified in any case. Individuals are not permitted to harm a citizen or to kill him/her. This is an inhuman act and is to be condemned. The government is demanded to take action against such unlawful wrong doings, arrest the culprits and give them punishment as per law of the land.

Regards
Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar/FATA
tncfata@gmail.com
www.tncfata.blogspot.com

Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns suicide attack in Mahmand Agency,FATA

We were shocked to hear the sad news of the gory suicide incident in Mahmand Agency, FATA in which more than 50 innocent people were martyred and more than 80 were severely wounded. FATA and its people have been suffering for the last many years and especially after 2001 when the extremism and terrorism took the area into its grip and made the people of FATA forced to either migrate to comparatively safer areas of the province or had to live on the terms and conditions of the militants and military alike.
The recent report of the Amnesty International is an eye opener in which it was clearly stated that more than 4 million innocent tribal people are hostage to the militants and military alike. People of the FATA are living as IDPs and they have no basic amenities for the life. Recently about 40 thousands people were forced to leave the area in FR Peshawar by the apparently militants. The stories of the trouble and agony of the people in FR-Peshawar were published in various newspapers and were highlighted in media but still to no avail.
Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns the suicide incident in Mahmand Agency once again and demands of the government and other human rights organizations to do some thing positive and practical to save the people of FATA from such inhuman and barbaric acts.

Regards
Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar
tncfata@gmail.com
+923015963337