President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday approved the extension of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act, 2012, under Article 247(3) of the Constitution, enabling the establishment of local government institutions in Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata).
Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Monday that a summary, initiated by the Ministry of States & Frontier Regions (SAFRON), stated that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Home & Tribal Affairs Department, with the approval of the K-P governor, had forwarded a proposal for the extension of the act.
SAFRON requested the prime minister to advise the president to approve the draft notification for the extension of the said act. President Zardari, thus, approved the draft notification, which reads: “In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (3) of Article 247 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Governor of the Province of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, with the approval of the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is pleased to direct that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act, 2012 (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Act No VIII of 2012), as in force in the Province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa immediately before the issuance of this notification, shall apply to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of the Province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with immediate effect.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2012.
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Right decision. FATA and PATA are the territories of Pakistan. Hence the constitution, federal and provincial laws, rules and regulations should be applicable to these areas. Not only provincial local government act but all other acts concerning National Assembly elections based on direct franchies, local government elections, extensionn of jurisdiction of Provincial and Supreme Court to PATA and FATA, abolition of FCR and political agent system needs to be implmented for the sake of unity and harmony in the country. India long ago had abolished the status of princely states Even the most controverisal trritory of J&K occupied by it is given the status of a provincial state of India within the frame work of all its constitution and other federal and provincial laws.