Jamiat-Ulema-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman Tuesday voiced his concern over the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-FATA merger bill, saying the bill was passed “without addressing concerns of tribesmen”.
Addressing a press conference, Fazl said that some areas of PATA and Balochistan were unexpectedly merged in FATA according to the recently passed bill.
“People of FATA hold their representatives responsible for this and now these representatives are trying to hide behind the resolution passed by the assemblies.”
The JUI-F chief also lamented that the law provided no substitute for the Frontier Crimes Regulations and that a vacuum had been created in the system.
The National Assembly and the Senate had already passed the bill titled Thirty-First Amendment Act, 2018. In the Lower House, the bill was moved by Minister for Law and Justice Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk.
In the final phase, a session of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed the bill with two-thirds majority.
Published in Daily Times, May 30th 2018.
