News Desk/Agencies
Islamabad
Representatives of various tribal agencies have challenged the legality of Fata Reforms Committee 2016’s recommendations in the Supreme Court. The petitioners claimed that majority of the people in tribal areas are against Fata’s merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The petitioners also attached affidavits of as many as 100 eminent persons from all seven Fata agencies. Further, the petitioners have made the federation of Pakistan, secretary cabinet division, president of Pakistan through secretary Aiwan-e-Sadr, prime minister through principal secretary, minister of states and frontier regions (Safron) through secretary Safron and governor K-P, as respondents. The petitioners submitted that constitutional provisions bar the premier from taking decisions regarding Fata.
The petitioners submitted that the impugned notification of the constitution of Fata Reforms Committee issued by the prime minister is illegal and thereby void as per Article 247.
