مینارکی جنگ
Damn that Minaret, It all started on the minarets of a Sunni mosque in Parachinar back in 1980’s, Shia’s were against the construction of that minaret but It got built & people were right, It became the center of all conflict & still it is considered the same & is called “Sunni’s minaret” You can see it from very far it is the largest minaret in the whole Kurram Agency. I could see them from my home town Zeran.
The interesting thing is that Sunni & Shia grand mosques are very close by their wall almost touch each other & there are points where it is separated by one small street & their main gates are on the same road with very little distance between them. You can see Sunni minaret from Shia mosque as it is too close. At times of war they would fire bullets and mortars at each other’s mosque. Shia mosque has two minarets but they are very small compared to the Sunni Minaret.
You must have seen that piece of my work which is larger then other ones. It is near Peshawar Adda & the wood market where we used to sell fire wood.
Whenever there was a dispute we would see big guns in the village. There is a gun we call “zu ku yak”. That was used on that wall near Peshawar Adda. I heard that it is a machine gun which is mounted on a helicopter. Both sides would use that against each other. Other guns like AK47, pistol etc. was normal.
People would fire that on minarets. Mortars & rocket launchers were used. You have seen the backside of Sunni mosque, the back gate & the house with it is still in that condition.
