Sadae Mazlomeen Dharna (Parachinar)


The Turi and Bangash tribes staged a sit-in protest near Shaheed Park for eight days following two explosions in Parachinar. The sit-in began after the two bombs went off on 23 June 2017 Friday evening, as shoppers were out buying supplies in preparation for the breaking of the fast on one of the last days of the holy month of Ramadan.This incident followed the callous sectarian terror attack in Parachinar. The Parachinar's sit-in was named as Sadae Mazlomeen Dharna
The relatives and people of Parachinar have put forth the demand that Chief of Army Staff, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and other high-level officials should visit the area. The protesters had been holding a peaceful demonstration following twin blasts, the latest in a series of bloody attacks that have targeted Shia Muslims in Parachinar the Kurram tribal area. Earlier, following last week's attacks, the protesters had come under fire from the government's security forces, in an attempt to force them to disperse. Reports indicate that several were killed in that firing.
Thousands of protesters in the northwestern Pakistani city of Parachinar have ended a week-long sit-in following twin blasts that killed at least 100 people, after the military acceded to their demands for better security, according to protest leaders and the military.

Reason behind sit-in

The demonstrators had demanded that the commandant of the paramilitary regiment responsible for firing on the protesters be dismissed, and that a new security plan be enforced for the district with input from local leaders.
Protest leaders also demanded that local tribesmen be inducted into the paramilitary forces that secure the district, and that a local militia be officially recognised in the new security plan. Greater compensation for the families of those killed was also demanded, equivalent to that announced for people killed in a devastating oil tanker fire in central Pakistan last week.
The paramilitary Frontier Corps policy in Parachinar is clearly discriminatory," reads the list of demands. "Instead of providing protection to the people they are involved in murdering them. As a result, the return of the Kurram militia be guaranteed and Parachinar's security be immediately handed over to them.
Those demands related to security, the army chief has immediately given the order for them to implemented. And you would see the additional army troops that have arrived," Major-General Asif Ghafoor, the military's spokesman, told reporters on Friday.
The tribal leaders said that unlike the other areas, the injured were given only Rs 0.1 million rupees while the relatives of those martyred are given only Rs0.3 million. Protesting tribal elders have rejected the compensation offered by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the families of Parachinar bombing victims, saying that they needed to be recognised as human beings first. Until the approval of demands, the protest would continue, added the protesting members of the community.
Mehdi Hussain Turi said, a local government employee. Children and young men are standing out there around the protesters for security, through the heat, through the rain, through everything."
For Shafiq Ahmed Turi, the protest was a last resort, to get the government to pay attention to the needs of Parachinar's citizens.
"We live peacefully, we bury our dead every time. But this time we were forced to come out to the road, just so that the government and the army chief would listen to us."

Negotiation with Army chief

COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Parachinar, Kurram Agency on Friday 30 June 2017 after the two blasts on Friday 23 June 2017. On the occasion, he was briefed about the security situation in the area, according to a statement issued by Pakistan Army's public affairs department. The Army chief also held a meeting tribal elders and the heirs of those killed in Parachinar blasts.
The locals and tribal leaders expressed full confidence and trust in Pakistan Army and its leadership, saying, "We, the people of Parachinar stand behind Pakistan Army, We are Pakistanis and Muslims only. Our blood is for Pakistan."
COAS also met representatives of sit-in and listened to their concerns. After meeting with the Army Chief, the following demands were approved.
's leaders and Secretary General Allama Raja Nasir Abbas,Shia Ulema Council leaders and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan have visited Parachinar to express his grief and solidarity with the families of victims of twin bombings on June 23, 2017. While PPP leaders Rehman Malik, Faisal Karim Kundi and media journalists, claimed that their helicopter was not allowed to land in Parachinar city.
Civil activists Jibran Nasir, Talha Rehman, Mahim Maher, Meena Gabeena, JDC Secretary General Syed Zafar Abbas and Saad Edhi came from Karachi to join Parachinar sit-in. Shia Ulema from Sindh, Hangu, Kohat, Peshawar and Quetta visited Parachinar to express solidarity with families of victims and join Sadae Mazlomeen Dharna. Christian community also joins sit-in protest for solidarity with victims of twin bomb blasts.
Protests and symbolic sit-ins began in different cities of Pakistan by Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen and leftist organisations to express solidarity with the victims of twin bomb blasts in Parachinar.
Symbolic sit-ins and protests in the following Cities:
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