FATA reform

Substantial amount is spent on relief work in FY 2019-20

Gen Qamar meets tribal elders, youth jirga to affirm support for development

JUI-F chief calls for referendum on the question of Fata’s merger with K-P

Party chief Asfandyar says PM Abbasi should avoid doing politics on petty issues

He said reforms introduced by PML-N govt for the war-torn region were a ploy to deceive residents of the tribal areas

Speakers hold vested interests, bureaucracy responsible for existence of FCR Act

While the British are long gone, we still have a discourse that favours colonialism and orientalism for Fata

Patriarchal nature of jirgas also analysed in session

One jirga rejects extension of Constitution to tribal belt; other decries draconian law

Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a legacy of Pakistan’s colonial past and are decades overdue for reform