Lahore: There is no sign of the end of the problems in northwest Pakistan, where authorities products that have gone on strike are demanding the departure of the military and intelligence companies from the restive region.
In opposition of alleged military meddling in their regular jobs, lots of officers blocked the Indus Highway on September 9 in the Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to rally the route’s northwestbound connection with the southern port city of Karachi.
Police officers from the surrounding regions, including Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, joined their protesting acquaintances, while political factions, tribal officials and civil society organizations expressed cooperation with them.
Some of their colleagues have been kidnapped or ambushed by Taliban adherents and followers in Lakki Marwat, Bannu, and Dera Ismail Khan over the past few years, according to the demonstrators, who accuse ISI and Defense Intelligence of worsening the situation in the area. In some cases, their homes and communities have been targeted.
This is the first time armed officers have sat in and obstruct an inter-provincial highway for four days straight in Pakistan. The demonstrators have so far declined to cooperate with their leaders ‘ calls to hold discussions and put an end to the riots.
Officer Rashid Khan argued that the army should leave the area and allow the police department to function easily.
If defense officials stop their interference, he said in Lakki Marwat,” We promise to restore harmony in the area within three weeks.”
” It’s not over with them to play good and bad Taliban,” they said. We ( police force ) arrest militants and they ( the military ) call us to release them”, another official at the sit-in told TOI.
The military has a significant presence in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, and has been fighting the Taliban and different groups for almost 20 years.
Police in Bajaur tribal district, which borders Afghanistan, have announced they wo n’t even work with anti-polio teams until the administration discovers and detaches the killers of a coworker who was shot dead while escorting once such group in Bajaur this week.
A man standing among a group of armed personnel was depicted in a video that was widely circulated on social media as saying,” There will be a total ban of polio duty.” ” They ( the government and security officials ) will give us the police officers who killed Luqman ( the police officer killed in the most recent attack while performing polio duty ) first,” said the statement.
In recent weeks, there have been more militant attacks in Pakistan, with many of them occurring in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where organizations like the outlawed Pakistani Taliban ( TTP ) have increased their attacks, pursuing security forces convoys and checkpoints, and abducting and killing security personnel and govt officials.
According to standard information, at least 75 police officers have been killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year in raids and precise deaths.
