new delhi thousands of people in south waziristan district of pakistan on friday staged protest against the recent wave of terrorism in the region and demanded that the civil administration fulfil its responsibilities to restore peace in the areapolitical workers social activists traders and youth participated in the protest march and chanted slogans for peaceover the past few months the law and order situation in pakistan has worsened with terrorist groups like the outlawed tehreekitaliban pakistan the islamic state group and the gul bahadur group carrying out attacks with near impunity across the countryseveral leaders from political parties including ppp ptm pmln and awp addressed the rally and blamed the government for failing to control the rise of terrorism in the regionno one is safe in wana from political leaders to traders tribal leaders and contractors today thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand peace we wont sit quietly until the government guarantees peace awami national party leader ayaz wazir told dawnat least 11 terrorists including two suicide bombers were killed during an operation carried out by a pakistani intelligencebased operation ibo in south waziristan on thursday pakistans military media wing saidearlier ttp attacked a pakistan government contractor mohammad nisars house who was asked to pay a ransom of rs 15 million which he refused he alleged that the ttp member attacked his house in rawalpindis dhamial area with a cracker after he refused to pay the ransom reported the dawnpakistans counterterrorism department ctd was also involved in the cases investigation after a first information report fir was registered with the police on tuesdaythe pashtuns of south waziristan came out in large numbers today in wana to protest against terrorism and talibanisation in our areas our people refuse to be used as cannon fodder and scapegoats in the new great game being imposed on the region north waziristan lawmaker mohsin dawar said on twitterabout 1000 people were killed and injured in attacks by the tehreeketaliban pakistan on the pakistan government in 2022 according to statistics published by the ttp terrorist group khaama press reportedttp said in a video that most of their attacks took place in the khyber pakhtunkhwa province of pakistan they also launched attacks outside the province khaama press reportedaccording to the speakers peace and normalcy are the foundations of socioeconomic development and insecurity and uncertainty were the major causes of the backwardness of the tribal districtsthe speakers said that the decadeslong insurgency affected the socioeconomic conditions of the tribal districts which earlier had huge reserves of natural resources they said that thousands of residents of tribal districts were killed during the militancy and war against terrorism reported the dawnwith agency inputs