KHYBER
The tribal elders rejected the merging of the ex-tribal region into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in a gathering held here at Bab-e-Khyber, Jamrud on Wednesday.
Organized under the banner of FATA Qaumi Jirga, a large number of anti-merging protestors from Waziristan to Bajaur participated in the protest moot.
Addressing on the occasion speakers including chairman of FATA Qaumi Jirga Bismellah Khan Afridi and others said that on 31, May, 2018, the then government decided merging of the ex-tribal region without consent of the tribal was injustice to them.
“Merging is contrary to our will, rites and customs therefore it is unacceptable to us,” they argued.
The founder of the Nation granted them the right to decide their own way of future however later on the rulers negated the Qauaid Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah pledge and imposed
They went on that instead of providing relief, merging had multiplied miseries of tribal they added and said lack of basic facilities further deteriorated the social status of the tribesmen.
They maintained that the tribesmen had rejected police and Patwar systems and the alien judiciary system, imposed on merged tribal districts, failed to provide justice to the applicants they added and said neither the government had materialized promises of provision of three percent share in neither NFC Award so far nor made permanent 25000 Khasadar and Levies force personnel, they remarked.
The participants approved pro-tribal welfare decisions taken out in a three days seminar, organized in Peshawar by Mehsud tribesmen from South Waziristan.
The speakers blamed that the spirit of the abolition of FCR and merging was to usurp the minerals of the former tribal agencies.
They demanded the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to form a larger bench in the writ filed in the Court against the merger to decide it.
