Jirga orders expulsion, protest of cooks for lifting rates
PESHAWAR: A jirga in Mardan district has diminished a family of cooks from a encampment for augmenting their work charges for scheming cauldrons by 50%.
The Social Welfare Committee in Kohi Barmol Katlang encampment ‘asked’ 10 families to leave and used a internal mosque’s loudspeakers to titillate villagers to start socially protest them. The group of a families have left in hunt of work elsewhere, while a women and children staying behind face a brunt of a hardship.
One of a victims told The Express Tribune by phone that there was no food in his residence because the internal shopkeepers had also been told not to sell anything to them. He pronounced a children of a ostracised families had stopped going to propagandize given of fear of other villagers.
He pronounced a cooks had increasing their work charges from Rs200 to Rs300 to keep adult with their possess expenses, and this led to the harsh preference from a internal committee.
“Our families are in a unsafe situation. The supervision should take adult a emanate with a cabinet to concede us to stay in a homes,” he said, adding that their incomes had evaporated as as no one would sinecure them.
Anwar Saleem, another prepare who has given changed to Mardan, pronounced a cabinet had been generally taken decisions for a gratification of a village, though this pierce had busted a lives of all the cooks. “The preference was taken on Oct 19, though we waited with a wish that a cabinet would repel it. That hasn’t happened,” he said, adding that they did not have any personal issues with any villagers.
Saleem told The Express Tribune that a encampment had been vital there given 1863 in houses built on their possess land. he opined that a preference was formed on standing prejudice. “We are veteran cooks and other villagers cruise us inferior.”
When contacted, District Police Officer (DPO) Mian Saeed pronounced nobody had been forced out of a village. “They [the families] met me and are during their houses. They had left a place due to a hazard of an armed clash,” Saeed said, adding that military had taken surety action.
One of a influenced cooks, however, said a DPO had met them though a emanate was still unused as many of a group were still fearful of a consequences of going behind home.
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