PESHAWAR: Life came to a complete halt in Bara, the headquarters of Khyber Agency, on Sunday after the authorities closed the main market and deployed more than a thousand Khasadar Force (tribal police) and Frontier Constabulary (FC) men at all entry points to the market. The political administration said there was no curfew in Bara, but said it would continue to take action under the Frontier Crimes Regulations until “miscreants” laid down their arms. “Force was deployed to ensure peace in the area after the Lashkar-e-Islami tried to take control of the agency headquarters on Saturday,” an official told Daily Times on Sunday.Tensions have resurfaced in the area with the return to Bara of Bangal Bagh Afridi, the head of the Lashkar-e-Islami. Afridi set up a “peace committee” on his return, but the political administration sees this as an attempt to take control of the town. However, the heads of the agency’s Doctor’s Association Bara, Tajiran Union Bara and Transport Association of Khyber Agency held a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Sunday in support of Afridi. DAB President Dr Niaz Badshah said that nobody had taken over Bara. The administration has been creating hurdles in the establishment of a traditional peace committee that had existed for a long time until it was dismantled in February earlier this year, he said. He said that all stakeholders in Bara Market had asked Afridi to end differences with the administration over the property of Pir Saifur Rehman and set up a peace committee. He said that Bagh had agreed on the condition that he would be given a written agreement signed by market members that binds them to abide by his rules.