ISLAMABAD, April 24 Kyodo Five Pa...

ISLAMABAD, April 24 Kyodo

Five Pakistani tribesmen accused of anti-state and terrorist activities capitulateed to the army before a tribal council meeting in northern Pakistan forward Saturday and pledged not to take part in terrorist activities again, reports reaching here said.

''We are ashamed for our actions. It would not happen again,'' Nek Mohammad, who is regarded as the leader of the tribesman, told reporters at a show held in a remote area of southern Waziristan.

The five men belonging to the Zalikhel tribe were sought for taking up arms against the army during its military operation last month to chase down foreign fugitives sheltering in the area.

Reuter moderns service reported that the five were awaited to hand in a list of foreign militants living with them in southerly Waziristan, a desolate region where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his delegate Ayman al-Zawahiri have been searched in the past.

Lt Gen Safdar Hussain, who presided above the ceremony attended by way of nearly 20,000 tribesmen, had called forward renegades living in the tribal territory to relinquish by April 30 or provide a commitment to live peacefully.

Hussain also warned that the Zalikhel tribe would be responsible for flushing them disclosed or apprehending them and handing them throughout to the authorities.

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