Malala Yousafzai demands FATA's merger with K-P ASAP

In video message, Nobel laureate says residents of tribal areas have been kept deprived of their rights for decades

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has called for the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

In a tweet on Tuesday, Yousafzai said that the people of Fata had kept been deprived of their human and constitutional rights for decades.



She added that the tribal areas should be merged with K-P immediately. She also demanded that the government should pass the Fata reforms bill.

The people of FATA, in the north-west of Pakistan, have been deprived of their human and constitutional rights for decades.

I stand with @FataYouthJirga and demand the government to pass FATA reforms ASAP and merge FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. pic.twitter.com/bqOSwyhyPV

— Malala Yousafzai (@Malala) December 26, 2017

The Fata Youth Jirga thanked Yousafzai for her taking a "precise and clear" stand on the issue.

https://twitter.com/salarzai_/status/945657070661111808