PESHAWAR: A jirga (tribal court) in Tirah Valley has asked a "couple" to leave the area within 24 hours or be killed after an Afghan refugee married a 16-year-old boy, a former federal minister from the Khyber Agency told Daily Times on Wednesday. The refugee, Liaqat Ali, 42, paid Rs 40,000 to the parents of 16-year-old Markeen Afridi to wed him in inaccessible Tirah Valley of the Khyber Agency bordering Peshawar. "Yes, it is true and people of the area are shocked by this gay marriage," former lawmaker Malik Waris Khan, a resident of the Khyber Agency, said. The marriage held amid usual pomp and show that was usually held to mark the wedding of a female in the tribal society, Millat Khan Afridi, an eyewitness to the marriage, was quoted as saying. "When we came to know that it was a gay marriage, many of us left the party without taking food," Afridi said.