JI rejects Fata's proposed uplift package

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ameer, Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has rejected the development package for Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), announced by government in the fiscal budget for year 2018-19. Addressing at a grand youth convention in Miramshah, North Waziristan Agency on Saturday he said the Fata was not given due share in National Finance Commission (NFC), while the announcement of development package was not satisfactory to rebuild the damaged infrastructure in the tribal region.
JI provincial chief said that the Fata had been adversely affected in the prolonged war against terrorism, saying that the package announced by government in the budget insufficient to rebuilding the damaged houses and other infrastructure in the tribal agencies. He demanded the government to announce Rs 1000 billion package for the Fata. Similarly, he said the Fata should be given representation in provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before the next general elections, while security check points to be removed in the entire tribal region.
He further demanded that the missing persons should be produced before the courts, as well as crackdown on name of de-weaponisation must be stopped in the tribal agencies. He added the repatriation of tribal displaced persons to be ensured before the start of Ramazan in dignified manner. He announced that the JI Central ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq will address a grand public meeting in North Waziristan Agency after the Ramazan.
He added the event was aimed to give a message in rest of the world that peace had been established in NWA. He said those people indulged in destroying peace, will be dealt with iron hands. He said the tribal people and security forces had rendered matchless sacrifices for restoration of durable and sustainable peace in Fata. He vowed that they will abolish the Frontier Crime Regulation from tribal region, as well as merge Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, if his party elected to power in the country.
Similarly, he said the initiatives would be taken to provide maximum job opportunities to tribal youth. He said they will give all due rights to people of Fata. Earlier, JI Fata ameer, Sardar Khan, Rahmanullah, Malik Haji Akbar Ali, JI Youth Fata president Mohammad Naveed Khan and others also addressed on the occasion. Besides, JI Fata secretary general, Mohammad Rafiq Afridi, deputy ameer, Dr Munsif Khan, deputy secretary information Mohammad Jibran, along with Maliks, elders, and notables, a large number to tribal people attended the youth convention.