Traders from Pir Baba Pachakli Bazaar in Buner, whose shops were devastated by recent floods, held a grand protest Jirga on Friday against what they termed delaying tactics by the district administration in releasing compensation cheques.

The Jirga, attended by hundreds of affected shopkeepers, warned that if payments were not released within three days, they would launch an indefinite protest movement, for which the administration would be responsible.

Addressing the Jirga, President of Anjuman Tajiran Pir Baba Pachakli, Haji Syed Wahid, accompanied by Sarfraz Khan, Irfan Ali, Dr. Fida Hussain, minority leader Sardar Sant Singh, and others, said that although 52 days had passed since the floods, not a single affected shopkeeper had received the promised compensation of Rs500,000 each.

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