MADRID 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy commissioner of the Pakistani Kurram district, Javedullah Mehsud, was injured this Saturday in an attack carried out by a group of armed men during the aftermath of the latest episode of a long territorial conflict between Muslim denominations in the area that has left more than 130 dead since November until their theoretical ceasefire declared this past Wednesday.
The spokesman for the local government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhua province, Muhammad Ali Saif, has assured that the situation is now under control after the attack on the convoy in which Mehsud was traveling through the town of Bagan.
Saif has indicated that the deputy commissioner is undergoing surgery at the Thall military hospital but his life is not in danger, as he announced in a statement published on his X social network account.
In the same statement, Saif asks the Sunni and Shiite communities of Kurram – who divide the district halfway and have been fighting territorial disputes for years – to “maintain the peace” agreed on Wednesday and not “be fooled by the conspiracy theories.
The incident occurs in the midst of preparations for the arrival in Kurram of the first convoy of humanitarian aid to an area practically disconnected from the country for almost three months, in the middle of extreme cold, due to the blockade organized by local clans and which ended degenerating into bloodshed when, on November 21, gunmen shot dead 54 people during an assault on a Shiite convoy.