Time for unsentimental measures: JI arch issues two-month deadline for abolishing FCR
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) arch Senator Sirajul Haq gave a two-month deadline to a sovereign supervision for abolishing a Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) in a Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
He was vocalization during a grand Jirga of genealogical chiefs during a JI’s domicile also famous as Markaz-e-Islami.
The JI arch pronounced that a news should be given a “practical shape” in dual months and 7 days for a enforcement, adding that if a supervision took longer than that, his celebration would theatre a long-march in Islamabad.
Siraj pronounced that JI’s inaugurated member had submitted a suit in council for abolishing a FCR.
“The Sartaj Aziz Commission on Fata reforms has unanimously endorsed a extermination of a black law, FCR … We will not endure any check in a doing of a commission’s report,” he said.
Lauding a sacrifices rendered for a country, he also strew light on problems they faced since of FCR.
“More than 10 million tribesmen are guarding a country’s 1,400-kilometre-long limit (with Afghanistan, but) are hold serf by a FCR. On a one hand, they are being deprived of their simple rights while, on a other, they are being labelled as terrorists, drug peddlers and disposed to assault by (national and international) media,” a senator said, adding that a people vital in Fata were in a connect since of a FCR.
Senator Siraj forked out that tribesmen were still but any university or health comforts … They (are compelled to) transport hundreds of kilometres for bringing patients to hospitals in Peshawar. They have no justice and no establishment for legislating laws … They do not (even) have illustration in a provincial public and their member in a National Assembly have no right to legislate.”
Criticising people who called for holding a referendum on a standing of Fata, he said: “A (mere) handful of people, who constantly suffer perks (and privileges doled out by) a domestic administration are articulate about (holding such a) referendum.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 5th, 2016.
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