A commander of local militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan has conveyed through a tribal jirga that he will abide by the peace deal reached with the authorities and offer support to curb violence in the region, the DAWN newspaper reported Sunday.

On the directives of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Governor Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, a 21-member tribal jirga had met with the militant commander Baitullah Mehsud on March 3 at an undisclosed location.

Pakistan has seen a series of bombing attacks across the country, resulting in some 40 deaths since mid-January this year.

The government has directly blamed Mehsud for the suicide attacks in northwest areas of Mirali and Dera Ismail Khan, and outside a luxury hotel in Islamabad, as he had reportedly vowed to avenge the January 16 military air strike in South Waziristan, killing at least eight alleged militants.

The DAWN report quoted a member of the jirga as saying that Mehsud had offered cooperation to the government in its efforts to check the acts of terrorism in Pakistan and stop militants' infiltration into Afghanistan.

Accordingly, the militant not only condemned the recent terrorist acts in the country but also assured that he would honor the agreement with the government signed in Spin Kai Raghzai in 2005.

Source: Xinhua