— Over 2.8M voters in northwestern tribal region to elect 16 provincial representatives first timePESHAWAR: Over 2.8 million voters from Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region will go to the landmark polls on Saturday to elect their representatives for the provincial assembly — the first time in the region’s history. Together with North Waziristan, Khyber was one of the tribal areas where the army had launched a large-scale onslaught in 2014 to eliminate TTP and its affiliates. Hafizullah Wazir, a local journalist from Wana — the capital of South Waziristan district — shares a similar view. The army had also launched an operation in South Waziristan against the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2009, which pushed the militants towards North Waziristan and other tribal regions. The series of military operations had displaced over 1.5 million tribesmen, mainly from North Waziristan, South Waziristan, and Khyber.

Source: Pakistan Today July 19, 2019 07:41 UTC