Bilawal calls for reforms in FATA

Govt has done nothing for reforms in tribal areas even though mainstreaming Fata was a part of NAP, says Bilawal

ISLAMABAD:

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for mainstreaming Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) by giving people their fundamental rights and establishing local governments there.

“The government has done nothing for reforms in the tribal areas even though mainstreaming Fata was a central part of the National Action Plan,” he lamented while talking with the office-bearers and workers of Pakistan Peoples Party at Zardari House on Monday.

“Empowering people will strengthen and not weaken national security as is often contended by a section of the establishment,” PPP spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted the PPP chairman as saying in a statement.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 19^th, 2016.