Liaqat Baloch led a procession for the merger of FATA with KPK

Lahore : Secretary General, Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat Baloch, and leading tribal elders have called upon Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to grant fundamental rights to the FATA people without further delay.

Addressing a big rally against the FCR, at the Lahore Press Club, attended by hundreds of people from tribal areas, they said that if the Bill for FATA reforms was not presented in the National Assembly, it would the biggest crime of former PM Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. They said that time was passing at a great speed and the tribal people were losing their patience.

Those who addressed the rally included JI FATA chief Haji  Sardar, Zarnoor Afridi, Maulana Abdul Hameed Khan, Maulana Waheed Gul, besides JI Khyber chief Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, and deputy Secretary General, JI, Hafiz Sajid Anwar.

On the occasion, Liaqat Baloch appealed to the JUI(F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Mehmood Khan Achakzai, not to obstruct the grant of basic rights to the tribal people and to respect their desire for merger with Khyber P.

He said that the Bill for merger should be presented in the assembly forthwith as would make it clear as to who was supporting it and who was against it.  He said that the tribal people would take revenge from those who opposed the Bill through their vote.

Speaking on the occasion, JI chief for Khyber P. Mushtaq Ahmed khan, said that the British rulers had framed the FCR as was an insult to humanity. However, he said, that even after 70 years of independence, the Pakistani rulers had not thrown off this yoke of slavery from the Tribal people.

JI FATA chief Haji Sardar Khan said that the tribal areas spread over 27 thousand sq km were without basic human rights. He said that the tribal people were the custodian of the  country’s geographical and ideological borders but they were being looked down upon which was unfair.