Pakistan's Prime Minister announced on Saturday the lifting of economic sanctions in a tense tribal region near Afghanistan to win its help in tracking down foreign militants and those who shelter them. "We are lifting these economic sanctions for development in South Waziristan," Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in a meeting Saturday with more than 500 elders from various tribes in the northwestern city of Peshawar. "We hope you will help us in evicting foreign elements." The sanctions, including the closure of shops and impounding of vehicles, were imposed in South Waziristan this year to punish tribesmen for failing to evict suspected foreign terrorists from their areas.
