{"id":26720,"date":"2026-11-02T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=26720"},"modified":"2026-11-02T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:56:10","slug":"malakand-commissioner-sets-rs2-million-fine-for-organising-anti-government-jirgas-and-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/malakand-commissioner-sets-rs2-million-fine-for-organising-anti-government-jirgas-and-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Malakand Commissioner sets Rs2 million fine for organising anti-government Jirgas and gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Malakand Commissioner Iqbal Hussain has instructed local officials in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to stop accepting recommendations from traditional jirgas, saying all decisions must henceforth be made by assistant commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting with local officials in Upper Dir district, Hussain warned that anyone organising a jirga or gathering against the government would face a fine of two million Pakistani rupees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also warned administrative officials under his authority that strict legal action would be taken against anyone failing to enforce the directive. He stressed that the order applies to all districts of Malakand and must be followed without exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hussain further claimed that neither the courts nor even the provincial High Court had the authority to interfere in their affairs, adding that all local administrative bodies operate under their control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Malakand Commissioner Iqbal Hussain has instructed local officials in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to stop accepting recommendations from traditional jirgas, saying all decisions must henceforth be made by assistant commissioners. During a meeting with local officials in Upper Dir district, Hussain warned that anyone organising a jirga or gathering against the government would face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26722,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26720\/revisions\/26722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}