 PESHAWAR: Nek Muhammad-led militants, who signed a peace agreement with the government last November, have denied sheltering foreign militants in South Waziristan Agency, a source told Daily Times on Wednesday. The militants denied the above in a meeting with Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain in Peshawar on Tuesday, the source added.
| ... and if you can't believe Nek Muhammad-led militants, who can you believe? |
"If someone tells you about the presence of foreign militants in our homes, the army should raid them. However, we want to emphasise that every report about the presence of foreign militants should be believed only when it is checked and rechecked," the source quoted Haji Sharif as telling the corps commander. The peace deal signed by the Sharif-led group included laying down weapons, denouncing terrorism and pledging allegiance to the state while the government dropped all terrorism charges against the militants who signed the deal. A tribal elder told Daily Times that the military suspected Haji Sharif's comrades of sheltering foreign militants. "I was asked by the military to visit the house of one of Haji Sharif's comrades to check whether any foreign militants were staying there. "I went there but found no foreign militants," he said.
| "Nope. Nope. Nothin' but domestic militants." |
"There is a tense calm as far as the Haji Sharif group and military is concerned. Both don't trust each other," he added. Haji Sharif had earlier assured the NWFP governor of his comrades' commitment to abide by the peace agreement. "We assured the governor that we would abide by the agreements reached with the government to bring peace to South Waziristan Agency," a government communiqué quoted Haji Sharif as saying. |