PESHAWAR: Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), on Sunday warned the government from imposing decision on the future status of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
“We welcome the suggestions put forward by the members reform committee regarding the future status of FATA but we cannot undermine the opinion of common tribesmen who are million in numbers,” he said while addressing a jirga in Peshawar.
He said the government is responsible for the miseries of the tribal people and they have not been properly compensated after the military operation. He said the brave people of FATA do not need foreign aid but they need peace and stability in their region.
He said that instead of bringing amendment in FCR FATA reforms committee suggested to merge FATA in KP and they have started implementation of this decision which is not acceptable to the people of FATA. He said that FATA is a war-torn area and now it is direly needed to provide all kind of facilities to the tribal people, adding that later hold a referendum to decide the future of its political and geographical status.
He said that report prepared by the FATA reforms committee was based on lies and in this report Sartaj Aziz has claimed that 90 percent people are in favour of FATA’s merger into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The cleric added that the committee has also claimed that the recommendations were signed by 19 elected representatives of FATA but if they proved even five signatures on this report then his party is ready to accept their demands.
He said that in FATA reforms report the people of FATA have been declared deserted people, which is a joke with peace loving people of FATA.
He said that people of FATA need to reconstruct their houses and they are not in the position to decide their future right now. He said that in this connection grand political jirga was held in previous government in which all political parties had empowered the tribal jirga to decide the future status of FATA but now leaders of those political parties are silent to express their opinion.
