 PESHAWAR: Suspected militants fired two rockets as NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai addressed a tribal jirga in Wana, South Waziristan, on Tuesday. No casualties were reported as the rockets missed their apparent target by a few hundred yards, but they did create panic in the 500 or so jirga participants that included the inspector general of the Frontier Corps and elders from the Masood, Wazir, Salman Khel, Dothani and Burki tribes. An eyewitness told Daily Times that the governor completed his speech after the rockets hit but did not stay for a luncheon hosted in his honour. He said that the governor pointed at the sight of the blast and said that these activities had harmed tribesmen. “They (militants) are a handful of people but every tribesmen is dubbed as a miscreant,” he quoted the governor as saying. He said that security forces responded to the rocket attack using heavy and light weaponry. The attackers fled the scene. The governor during his speech told the tribal jirga that the government had approved Rs 1.23 billion for the development of South Waziristan, double the allocation of previous years. Orakzai also approved a girl’s high school for the agency and directed the authorities to provide Rs 500,000 for renovation of Musa Neeka Shrine. He announced that 900 tribesmen would be inducted into the levies force. |