Former Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) member of the National Assembly from Bajaur Agency, Haroon Rashid, was released Thursday by the Frontier Region (FR) Kohat political administration on the intervention of a tribal jirga. According to a press statement, the tribal jirga, led by Malik Alam Gul Zarghunkhel and Malik Said Asgar Boshthikhel, assured the political administration that Rashid would not participate in political activities in FR Kohat in future. Haroon Rashid, who relinquished his National Assembly membership in protest of the attack on a religious seminary in Bajaur on October 30, was arrested during a protest rally in Darra Adamkhel on November 24.