A Jirga comprising of 50 local clerics failed to convince the Jani Khel residents to bury the bodies of four boys who were found buried in a local graveyard on March 20. The local residents have staged a sit-in in Jani Khel since March 21, demanding the immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the kidnapping and murder of the four teenagers. They have been protesting with the coffins of the deceased boys, refusing to bury them until the culprits and punished. The local administration assured the residents that the matter would thoroughly be investigated but the bodies should be buried first, however the locals refused to do so. “We are staging a sit in outside the Jani Khel Police Station for the past seven days.

Source: The Express Tribune March 28, 2021 09:32 UTC