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A jigra comprising senior Pakistani religious clerics and tribal ‘Maliks’ (tribal elders) left for Afghanistan on Monday afternoon in a bid to calm down tensions at the Chaman border crossing.
The 16-member jirga is expected to hold negotiations with Afghan officials and attempt to convince them against a repeat of what happened last week.
The jirga members crossed over into Afghanistan at the Chaman border on Monday afternoon.
Before crossing over, Tribal Maliks Haji Attaullah Khan and Malik Abdul Khaliq Achakzai told media that they would try to convince the Afghan officials to refrain from such repeat of such episodes in the future.
“We are taking a message of peace,” said Haji Attaullah Khan, adding that in the future as well, if there is a dispute, it needs to be resolved amicably through dialogue.
Achakzai said that they hope to explain to the Afghans that they are brothers who have been living in this area for a very long time and that they want to live together as friends, not enemies.