Speedy justice?
Ambreen Kazmi highlights one reason why some locals in the FATA region of Pakistan are favoring Taliban rule over the prevailing system.
One of the reasons provided for emergence of Taliban in Khyber agency and Swat has been narrated as that the locals of these regions were not satiated with the justice system introduced after 1969. Thus, locals began to support the group that supported enforcement of old justice system.
It is reported that Taliban in Mohmand agency have settled a long lasting dispute amid Masud and Gurbaz, the sub-tribes of this agency. The dispute was over the distribution of mining rights of Ziarat marble amongst these sub-tribes. The five years old contention had caused billion of rupees loss to the local contractors and the government. Local contractors affiliated with this business reported that government had failed to settle the conflict but with the mediation of local Taliban, the issue was resolved.
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