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