Old boundary dispute among tribes resolved.

KHYBER -- The newly-formed Shalobar Qaumi Council (SQC) in Bara has succeeded in amicably resolving the longstanding boundary dispute between Shalobar tribe and the villagers of Peshawar after protracted negotiations.

SQC founding members Mir Alam, Said Shah and Zahid Afridi told Dawn that their tribe had been at loggerheads with various villages of Peshawar, situated on about 14 kilometres stretch from Hayatabad to Ourmarrh Nehar, over the demarcation of boundary for the last four decades.

Mir Alam said that rival tribes on both sides of the disputed boundary had established trenches and also exchanged fire on a number of occasions that caused injuries to several people in recent past.

He said that rival groups had also resorted to looting of shops and public properties besides torching some vehicles with no group willing to budge from its respective claim on the disputed land.

Mir Alam said that a series of talks was held with elders from Peshawar villages after the formation SQC and after lengthy deliberations, the issue was resolved with the help of a boundary demarcation agreement the Shalobar tribe had signed with its rivals when Arbab Mohammad Jahangir was chief minister of the...