According to official records, currently there are 11 tribal disputes involving at least 22 tribes which are at daggers drawn. Out of these 11 festivities, five are currently 'inactive' but may erupt at any given moment of time leading to a whole phase of violence in the area.
The most troublesome area for Larkana division police is Kashmore district with five on-going festivities of Jakhrani v/s Bhayo, Sawand v/s Sabzoi, Jakhrani v/s Kandrani, Chachar v/s Bhayo and Sangi v/s Badani tribes.
According to the figures available at the office of the Larkana DIG, so far this year 147 people have been killed and 71 have been injured in these tribal feuds. A total of 1,478 rustics have been nominated in 151 cases lodged at different cop shoppes across the division.
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only 112 suspects while the remaining 1,141 are still absconding.
Though none of these festivities have been so far dissolved, but five of the ongoing 11 festivities were capped by the division police, said Larkana DIG Jawed Alam Odho while talking to Dawn.
Talking about the highly-flammable dispute between the Kalhoro and Lashari tribes in Bedi Lashari area, DIG Odho said that elders of both clans succumbed before the police pressure and agreed to bury the hatchet. "Once this area had been a 'no-go-area' for both the warring groups but now it has become peaceful because of police presence and will of the elders to resolve the issue," the DIG claimed. "The guns have been silenced and soon complete peace would prevail."
Talking about how rustics acquired weapons, DIG Odho said that arms were smuggled from the Sindh-Balochistan
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border. "For this we have established a border force in Jacobabad to plug the supply of illegal weapons," he said. "But there is also a need to strengthen that border force and establish another to guard the Sindh-Balochistan border from Kambar-Shahdadkot district."
Why this belt is especially prone to tribal disputes may have little to do with the fact that Larkana division borders Balochistan from the eastern borders of Kambar-Shahdadkot, Kandhkot-Kashmor and Jacobabad districts, with people from both Baloch and Sindhi descent living in these areas.
The root of the problem is that these warring tribes are often fighting somebody else's war. A police official who has served in the kutchha areas of the province, megapolis Bloody Karachi
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and also the UN missions, explained that the landlords wielding influence over these areas did their part to keep the festivities alive for their own political gains. He said that since these waderas did not want to lose their grip over these tribes and clans living in their areas they fuelled festivities between them to continue to wield their influence over them.