The Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) on Tuesday while debating its Inquiry Commission Report on Wana strongly condemned military operation in South Waziristan Agency and feared it would create hate against the armed forces if it was not stopped immediately and the affected properly compensated.
A three-member inquiry commission constituted after visiting some affected areas and interviewed the local people prepared the report. The commission comprised of Muhammad Khurshid Khan, Wali Khan Afridi and Abdul Karim Mehsud.
Reading out the report in the meeting, secretary general PHCB Wali Khan Afridi said the commission met with District Bar Association of Tank, lawyers, local journalists and social workers and held interviews with tribesmen in Tank and its adjacent areas.
"We met with a 15-year old boy Noorullah in the Tank prison who was arrested when he was taking his injured cousin to hospital," he said. The commission assured him of full legal support, he said.
He said thousands of innocent tribesmen had fled their homes and taken shelter in Tank and its suburbs with their relatives while other had migrated to Punjab and Karachi. "Some people has taken shelter in an abandoned Afghan refugees camp in Dera Ismail Khan," he said.
Eye-witnesses told the commission bombardment on an alleged training camp of terrorists at Dhaley Khula Karama on September 9 in which around 52 people were killed was dis-information and the government spokesman could not prove his claims while the tribesmen provided a list of those killed in the attack.
A day earlier (September 8), reacting to a bomb blast security forces opened indiscriminate firing on the people present in the area killing at least 8 persons who belonged to Tank. Dr Samar Gul who was on his way to hospital also received three bullets.
Fighter jets shelled the house of Haji Sala Khan and killed four persons and injured 14 others. In the surrounding villages of Makeen several children women and men were killed who include Amna (3), Khurshid (5), Safia (5), Fazal Muhammad (30), Wife of Fazal Muhammad (25), Raida (2), Irfan (22), Shah Iran (70), wife of Zahirud Din (27), Nahida Bibi (20), wife of Ghulam Muhammad (26), wife of Niaz Muhammad (26), Lal Muhammad (26), Ali Muhammad (25) while all the shops, Sarais and clinics and mosques were destroyed during the attack.
He said in Laddha many dead bodies of the local people were still in the custody of security forces but their relatives were reluctant to collect them fearing arrest. In the forests of Karwan Manza, Khanigurram and Karrama corpses of dead bodies were littered but collecting was dangerous. A large number of tribesmen were languishing in various jails of the province.
Mr Afridi said it was revealed during inquires government had issued circulars to all hospitals not to treat anyone injured by the security forces just to avoid media reach to them. He said the faces of some dead bodies of some tribesmen were sprayed so as to show them as foreigners.
The commission suggested an immediate end to the operation, rehabilitation of the displaced tribesmen and solve the issue through consultation with the local people.
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