PESHAWAR: The Pakistan army on Monday handed over the executive control of the restive Swat district to the civil authorities, finishing its decade-long army operation to flush out the Pakistani Taliban militants and restore peace in the house the town of Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. The army used to be first despatched to the picturesque Swat district of the Khyber-Pakthunkhwa province in 2007 when a neighborhood cleric and leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Maulana Fazlullah challenged the writ of the state and arrange his Sharia courts.
Taliban later introduced an organised movement and prolonged its community to the adjacent districts. They imposed a number of restrictions, together with banning ladies' education, making obligatory wearing of burqa for ladies and protecting beard for men, amongst others.
In 2009, the federal government introduced a significant army operation in opposition to the TTP, all through a lot of people were pressured to abandon their properties in Swat, Buner and other districts.
Malala, who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, used to be shot at by means of Taliban in 2012 for advocating for girls' education, which used to be forbidden below the militants' rule over Swat. The 15-year-old used to be flown to Britain for better remedy and further education. In March, she visited her house the town for the first time after being shot at.
The army handed over the logo of authority to the Commissioner, Malakand Division and Regional Police Officer (RPO) at a ceremony, which used to be attended by means of Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mehmood Khan, Corps Commander Peshawar, Lieutenant General Nazir Ahmed Bhut, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Salahuddin, General-Officer-in-Command Swat Major General Khalid Saeed, officials said.
The elders' of the realm and other civil and military officers additionally attended the serve as, all through which a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of administrative authority used to be handed over the Chief Minister, they said.
Hailing the army for effectively launching the operation in opposition to terrorism and restoring peace in Swat, Khan said, the army has made a historical past by means of shifting the executive powers again to the civil authorities.
The Chief Minister, who hails from Matta tehsil of Swat district, said that terrorists wrecked havoc with lives of blameless people.
He said he himself used to be a watch witness to the Taliban's barbaric acts in 2009. He recalled that terrorists didn't spare even the training institutions and destroyed their constructions.
Khan said that the cowardly and ugly acts of the terrorists could not deter the resilient people of Swat and so they were therefore defeated by means of the army, police drive and other legislation enforcement forces and lasting peace used to be completed.
Addressing the collection, Lt Gen Ahmed said that three.5 million people were dislocated in Swat district when militants tried to take control of the executive affairs of Swat district.
The army, he said, introduced successful operations and eliminated terrorists in 4 month from the district and other spaces of Malakand Division and rehabilitated the displaced people.
Taliban later introduced an organised movement and prolonged its community to the adjacent districts. They imposed a number of restrictions, together with banning ladies' education, making obligatory wearing of burqa for ladies and protecting beard for men, amongst others.
In 2009, the federal government introduced a significant army operation in opposition to the TTP, all through a lot of people were pressured to abandon their properties in Swat, Buner and other districts.
Malala, who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, used to be shot at by means of Taliban in 2012 for advocating for girls' education, which used to be forbidden below the militants' rule over Swat. The 15-year-old used to be flown to Britain for better remedy and further education. In March, she visited her house the town for the first time after being shot at.
The army handed over the logo of authority to the Commissioner, Malakand Division and Regional Police Officer (RPO) at a ceremony, which used to be attended by means of Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mehmood Khan, Corps Commander Peshawar, Lieutenant General Nazir Ahmed Bhut, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Salahuddin, General-Officer-in-Command Swat Major General Khalid Saeed, officials said.
The elders' of the realm and other civil and military officers additionally attended the serve as, all through which a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of administrative authority used to be handed over the Chief Minister, they said.
Hailing the army for effectively launching the operation in opposition to terrorism and restoring peace in Swat, Khan said, the army has made a historical past by means of shifting the executive powers again to the civil authorities.
The Chief Minister, who hails from Matta tehsil of Swat district, said that terrorists wrecked havoc with lives of blameless people.
He said he himself used to be a watch witness to the Taliban's barbaric acts in 2009. He recalled that terrorists didn't spare even the training institutions and destroyed their constructions.
Khan said that the cowardly and ugly acts of the terrorists could not deter the resilient people of Swat and so they were therefore defeated by means of the army, police drive and other legislation enforcement forces and lasting peace used to be completed.
Addressing the collection, Lt Gen Ahmed said that three.5 million people were dislocated in Swat district when militants tried to take control of the executive affairs of Swat district.
The army, he said, introduced successful operations and eliminated terrorists in 4 month from the district and other spaces of Malakand Division and rehabilitated the displaced people.
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