BANNU: Internally displaced people from North Waziristan on Sunday protested against the government contractors for `looting` their houses back home and `selling` valuable items as scrap, threatening to set their vehicles on fire if they didn`t stop the practice.

The IDPs gathered at Milad Park here after marching through various bazaars. They held placards and banners inscribed with slogans against `looting` of their houses destroyed during the Zarb-i-Azb military operation against terrorists.

Addressing the protesters, Utmanzai jirga leader Pir Rahmatullah, former NA candidate Malak Riaz Khan, teachers association president Hafiz lhsan Wali, Youth of North Waziristan`s former president Noor Islam Dawar and others said they had vacated their houses on the call of Pak army and migrated to other parts, but regretted that their sacrifices were `ignored`.

They alleged that the government contractors collected valuables and other household items from their houses and sold them at throwaway prices in other districts.