Jirga proposes K-P’s merger with FATA
The jirga, convened by ANP, appoints a panel to hold similar jirgas to garner tribal leaders’ support on the issue.
MOHMAND AGENCY:
A jirga arranged by Awami National Party (ANP) here proposed integration of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Convened amid tight security, the jirga appointed ANP’s provincial vice president Abdul Latif Afridi as head of a panel tasked to hold similar jirgas in different parts of the region to garner tribal leaders’ support on the issue.
Addressing the jirga, Afridi said that his party would continue the struggle to get rights of the tribal people restored.
Criticising the Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR), he said the FCR was not acceptable in any form to the people of Fata and the government instead of making amendments in the black law should restore fundamental rights of the people.
Afridi also accused bureaucracy of delaying reforms in FCR.
Pakhtuns living in K-P and Fata cannot remain divided and the ANP will fight for their rights, remarked the party’s provincial general secretary Arbab Tahir.
He termed the previous government of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) responsible for the growing insurgency in the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2012.
A jirga arranged by Awami National Party (ANP) here proposed integration of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Convened amid tight security, the jirga appointed ANP’s provincial vice president Abdul Latif Afridi as head of a panel tasked to hold similar jirgas in different parts of the region to garner tribal leaders’ support on the issue.
Addressing the jirga, Afridi said that his party would continue the struggle to get rights of the tribal people restored.
Criticising the Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR), he said the FCR was not acceptable in any form to the people of Fata and the government instead of making amendments in the black law should restore fundamental rights of the people.
Afridi also accused bureaucracy of delaying reforms in FCR.
Pakhtuns living in K-P and Fata cannot remain divided and the ANP will fight for their rights, remarked the party’s provincial general secretary Arbab Tahir.
He termed the previous government of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) responsible for the growing insurgency in the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2012.