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2006-10-08 India-Pakistan

Local Taliban blamed for Orakzai sectarian clashes

ORAKZAI: Three more people were killed and two others were critically injured in a rocket attack on Saturday, the sixth day of sectarian clashes between the Sunnis and Shias in the agency. The Ahl-e-Tashai, a local Shia organisation, blamed local Taliban and foreign militants for the sectarian violence in the agency.

The shrine, which originally belonged to the Shia, was handed over to the Sunni community during British rule. Later, through an agreement between the two sects, the Shia were allowed to visit the shrine and ensure its maintenance. The local Taliban in 2000 declared the agreement un-Islamic and warned the Shia community to stop coming to the shrine...

These are Taliban and Al Qaeda men who have pressured the Sunni leaders and the political administration to dishonour the agreement reached in 2000 between the Sunni and Shia leaders and the political administration regarding the maintenance and reconstruction of the shrine of Hazrat Mir Anwar Shah, Syed Hamayun and Nazir Khan, members of the Ahl-e-Tashai, told reporters at the Peshawar Press Club on Saturday.

The organisation demanded the NWFP governor and the federal government bring the Taliban to justice. Hamayun accused the government and political administration of giving a free hand to the Taliban against the Shia. They urged the government to give control of the shrine to the Shias and stop the local Taliban from conducting raids. They claimed that the shrine, which originally belonged to the Shia, was handed over to the Sunni community during British rule. Later, through an agreement between the two sects, the Shia were allowed to visit the shrine and ensure its maintenance, they said. The local Taliban in 2000 declared the agreement un-Islamic and warned the Shia community to stop coming to the shrine, they said.

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