PESHAWAR: (APP) Tribel elders at a Grand Jirga here at Bagh-e-Naran Monday vowed to fight side by side with Pakistan Army if India dared to attack the country.
The Jirga held under the auspices of FATA Grand Alliance was attended by tribal elders including former federal ministers Hamidullah Jan Afridi and Malik Waris Khan, Malik Salahuddin Koki Khel, Malik Khan Marjan Wazir, Malik Daud Khan Afridi, Malik Muhammad Amin, Malik Darya Khan Afridi and others.
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The elders said the people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) had always sacrificed their lives and property for the sake of the country and would not let anyone to cast an evil eye on the motherland.
They would stand shoulder to shoulder with Army Jawans to fight the enemy, the tribal elders said. The tribesmen were ready to sacrifice everything for the country's defence.
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They said they were soldiers without uniform and would repeat their ancestral history by liberating the occupied valley from the Indian forces.
The Jirga urged the United Nations to play its due role to end Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir.