JI will launch a campaign against FCR : Siraj ul Haq

Lahore : The Jamaat e Islami will launch a campaign for the abolition of the British legacy FCR and for the merger of FATA with Khyber P. from July 15, JI Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq, announced in Peshawar on Monday.

Addressing a press conference at Al-Markaz Islami Peshawar, he said that the government had not taken any steps to implement the Sartaj Aziz FATA Reforms Committee report as had recommended the abolition of the FCR and the merger of FATA with Khyber P.

He said the Sartaj Aziz Committee had made its recommendations after consulting more than seven thousand FATA notables but there had been no progress in that direction so far.

He said the FATA people had been wronged for the last seven decades and now they had lost their patience. He said the schools and colleges in FATA were closed due to the army operation and the markets had been destroyed.

JI provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, deputy chief Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, Secretary General, JI FATA, Muhammad Rafiq Afridi, were also present on the occasion.

Siraj ul Haq said that Press conferences would be held at all agencies headquarters till July 15 and a campaign for FCR’s abolition would be started all over FATA from July 20.

The JI would hold rallies and public meetings at Tehsil  and district level till August 10 after which bigger rallies would be arranged with the support of the allies. If the government failed to take any measure in this direction till   the last week of August, the JI would take up the issue in the Senate and the National Assembly and if  there was no progress towards FATA reforms, sit- in would be held in Islamabad with the tribal people. The provincial JI chief =, Khyber P. would also hold meetings with the civil society, journalists and columnists and human rights bodies in this regard.

The JI chief further said that the government had given last date for the return of all the IDPS as 31^st of December 2016 and subsequently April 2017, but that had not been done and around nine lakh IDPs were compelled to live in camps in different areas.

He said the tribal people wanted to send their true representatives to the parliament who could present their problems effectively.