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DND Report
A 24-member tribal Jirga in Tirah Valley will be convened by the Bara Political Alliance on Saturday, January 31, to review the overall situation in Tirah Valley and to raise the serious issue of alleged embezzlement of four billion rupees allocated for the valley.

According to local elders, this money, meant for the temporary displacement and rehabilitation of affected families, has allegedly been misappropriated by the provincial government and PTI leaders.
According to available information, the Bara Political Alliance is organizing this important tribal Jirga on Tirah-related issues, which will be attended by the district administration, members of the local community, tribal elders, and other notables. The Jirga is taking place at a time when a major dispute has erupted between politicians and Jirga members over the distribution of four billion rupees that were approved for families temporarily displaced from Tirah. This amount was allocated so that residents of the valley could receive timely assistance during displacement. However, this objective has been sidelined, and politics has taken precedence. It had been mutually agreed between PTI politicians and the 24-member Jirga that Jirga members would be included in the registration process to ensure that no undeserving individuals could benefit. This agreement was later ignored by the PTI leadership.
According to reports, influential PTI leaders including Iqbal Afridi, Meena Khan Afridi, and Chief Minister Sohail Afridi excluded the Jirga members from the registration process and have since been running continuous propaganda against these 24 Jirga members. By January 28, only temporary registration slips had been issued to 14,000 families, while complete registration through NADRA had been completed for only 8,000 families. During this process, it also emerged that PTI workers from areas other than Tirah were registered by falsely declaring them as residents of Tirah in order to receive funds.
Local people claim that migration funds are being distributed among party loyalists instead of rightful beneficiaries. As a result, displaced families are sitting in tents on the one hand, while on the other hand, the money allocated in their name is being poured into political activities. This situation is not only an injustice but also a blatant mockery of the state system.
Local elders have again confirmed that the demand for displacement was never made by the security forces. This option was chosen by the local elders themselves. The Pakistan Army’s strategy has consistently been limited to intelligence-based operations (IBOs), which are a tested and effective method, instead of large-scale operations. Despite this, the PTI government deliberately promoted the impression that displacement and hardships were caused by the army in order to malign state institutions.
According to local elders, the major objective behind making the entire migration process controversial appears to be the weakening of ongoing counterterrorism operations in Tirah. The geographical location of Tirah has long been exploited for a nexus of terrorism, drugs, and crime, where elements linked to the Afghan Taliban and other networks have remained active. State surveillance, checking, and effective intelligence-based operations pose a threat not only to terrorism but also to the entire drug network. As a result, opposition to these measures is being presented as a humanitarian issue.
The most dangerous aspect of this entire situation is that it directly benefits Fitna al-Khawarij (TTP terrorists). PTI’s conduct and narrative consistently attempt to portray state institutions as weak, which aligns directly with the narrative of Fitna al-Khawarij. Consequently, in the current situation, the most satisfied and content network is that of Fitna al-Khawarij. Had the four billion rupees allocated for Tirah been spent transparently on the actual affected people, neither this mistrust would have emerged nor would state institutions have been subjected to criticism. Instead of treating this sensitive matter with seriousness, the PTI provincial government sacrificed it at the altar of politics. This issue has now gone beyond just money; it is becoming clear evidence of how a humanitarian crisis is being exploited for political gain. The damage is being borne not only by the people of Tirah but by the entire state.
It may be remembered that the targeted intelligence-based operations are being conducted all over the country by law enforcement agencies, including police, intelligence agencies, and the army. More than 75,000 such operations were conducted last year alone, averaging more than 200 per day. These operations have proven extremely effective, with 2,597 terrorists and facilitators eliminated in the last year, the highest number ever recorded in a calendar year.
Intelligence-based operations are also most suitable because they do not entail the population-wide suffering associated with large-scale operations, thereby minimizing the narrative space for terror facilitators and their political patrons. Similarly, Tirah, being infested with Kharijis supported by a terror economy of drugs and political patronage, has been subjected to intelligence-based operations.
During the January 31 Jirga, detailed deliberations will be held on the alleged embezzlement, unfair and politically motivated distribution of the four billion rupees allocated for the people of Tirah, and the injustices inflicted upon the public. Alongside this, a joint, serious, and consensus-based course of action will be formulated to resolve these grave issues.
When asked to comment on the decision of migration from Tirah Valley, one of the elders, who is a member of the elders’ Jirga, informed the media that the local population of Tirah was anxious due to intelligence-based operations against terrorists who had taken shelter in their homes and compounds. The local population contacted the security forces to resolve this issue. The elders were informed that the security forces were conducting operations against terrorists hiding in residential areas and compounds and that the security forces also wanted these operations to end. However, for this to happen, the local population had to take one of the following steps: clean their own compounds and villages of militants hiding among the population; or, if that was not possible, facilitate the security forces in intelligence-based operations; or, if neither option was possible, vacate the area so that the security forces could eliminate the terrorists through operations and prevent harm to civilians.
In September 2025, local elders of Tirah met the then Chief Minister KP Ali Amin Gandapur, in the presence of the current Chief Minister, who was an MPA at the time. The issue of evacuating terrorists or possible displacement was discussed in this meeting. On October 28, 2025, the Deputy Commissioner Khyber wrote the first letter to PDMA regarding possible displacement and necessary preparations, in the presence of the current Chief Minister of KP. On November 14, 2025, the provincial cabinet approved, in principle, an amount of four billion rupees for the rehabilitation of displaced persons from Tirah.
Three months later, on December 11, 2025, local elders contacted the Khyber district administration and informed them that their efforts to persuade terrorists to leave the area had failed and that they were ready for voluntary and temporary displacement. On December 17, 2025, a Jirga comprising 26 notables met the Khyber district administration and presented their demands regarding displacement. Similar meetings continued on December 18 and 19, 2025. On December 26, 2025, the Chief Secretary approved the four billion rupees for rehabilitation. On December 31, 2025, the Jirga met the Chief Secretary, where the displacement mechanism was finalized and the Jirga’s demands were accepted. After the registration process, which was to be carried out by the provincial government, displacement was to be completed by January 14, 2026, later extended to January 26, 2026.
Despite this documented timeline, several serious questions remain unanswered and should be addressed by the provincial government:

• How can the PTI government claim that it was not taken into confidence when the provincial cabinet had approved the 4 billion rupees in principle well before the formal notification and the displacement decision?
• Why were only two registration points established in Bagh and Dawatoi for 90,000 people? Is this not deliberate mismanagement by the KP government to create hardships for people and then use it as a political narrative?
• Will PTI respond to the concerns raised by the 24-member Jirga regarding the poor performance of registration points and transparent distribution of the funds?
• Will PTI explain the alleged irregularities in the registration process, where 14,000 families were issued registration slips, 6,000 of which were given to people who are not residents of Tirah (reportedly PTI workers)?
• If provincial approval for the rehabilitation of displaced persons was given on November 14, 2025, why was the process delayed until the end of January 2026?
• Does the controversial distribution of funds among non-local individuals not strengthen the suspicion that PTI is attempting to use this money to mobilize people for its February 8 protest against federal government and state institutions?