Mehsud tribe puts demands to SWA admn

Mehsud tribe puts demands to SWA admn

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/196924/
December 13, 2012
Farooq Mehsud
D.I. KHAN: A Grand Jirga of the three clans of Mehsud tribe held with Political Agent of South Waziristan in chair Wednesday in Political Compound Tank and presented their demands to the administration.
The Jirga headed by Shahzada homayoun popularly called the Prince, unanimously said that the government should clear the
Mehsud area of South Waziristan as soon as possible as they want to go back to their homes. 
They said that government had promised during the operation that the area would be cleared with in a few months, but since than 3 years lapsed and they were still living in IDPs status which they did not want any more.
All the three clans of Mehsud tribe said that ADP to be distributed among the various tribes of South Waziristan as per the "Nikat System" under which the Mehsud tribe has three shares while Wazir tribe has one share. The Mehsud also said that delaying the development projects on the pretext that Mehsud tribe is away from their area was unjust and unacceptable.
The Mehsud tribe also shows their displeasure over the displacement of the Mehsud IDPs families from Wana sub-division of South Waziristan.
Mehsud and Wazir are like brothers, and Wazir should have cooperated with Mehsud tribe. They said that Wana is land of Ahmadzai tribe, and they have the right to displace Mehsud tribe, but displacing Mehsud in the name that they were disturbing the peace of the area was not good and had shocked Mehsud tribe as whole.
They demanded that Mehsud were away from their land, so it was government responsibility to protect the boundaries of the Mehsud land, bordering with North Waziristan and Wana of South Waziristan. The Jirga also demanded that alternative education facilities must be provided in Tank and D.I. Khan to students of the whole tribe of Mehsud.