<p>By Ghafar Ali Khan</p> <p><br /> PESHAWAR: Local Taliban handed over control of Darra Adam Khel, a tribal area some 35 kilometers south of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) capital city Peshawar, to local administration after a jirga (council of tribal elders) assured militants that no criminal and ‘un-Islamic’ activities in the area would […]
Afghan refugees fear revenge from former rivals upon return
PESHAWAR-Thousands of Afghan refugees in the Jalozai refugee camp affiliated with various Jehadi organizations during the Soviet Union invasion on Afghanistan have refused to go back to their home country fearing attacks and killings at the hands of their communists-Northern Alliance– rivals now controlling the country. Located 35 kilometers southwest of Peshawar the Jalozai camp […]