JUI-F announces anti Fata merger rallies

LANDIKOTAL(FATA): Announcing anti Fata merger rallies across Fata, Jameat Ulema Islam (Fazl) leaders on Sunday asked MNA Al-haj Shahjee Gul that he should resign from the parliament seat on moral grounds as he failed to accommodate tribal people’s aspirations to decide Fata status.

JUI-F leaders termed fata merger into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a planned conspiracy against the deprived and ignored ten million tribal people. However, they asked the KP governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra to respect tribal people’s vote as merger into KP would not help resolve Fata people grievances they suffered since Pakistan came into being.

Flanked by a good number of JUI-F senior leaders, Fata JUI-F general secretary Mufti Muhammad Ejaz was speaking to a press conference here in Landikotal press club. He said his party support reforms However, he said, it not means that JUI-F was not against the draconian Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR).

Mufti Ejaz said it was on the record that his party seniors had opposed the British rulers and had struggled to liftoff FCR from the country. Ejaz asked MNA Al-haj Shahjee Gul said that he should resign on moral grounds as he failed to respect his voters they sent him to the parliament.

He said Shajee Gul not morally and not constitutionally authorities to play a solo role in a national issue of Fata merger. He accused Shahjee that he was playing of his own political scoring game while struggle to decide the fate of Fata without the consent of ten million tribal people. The JUI-F leaders rejected Fata merger and said that health and education system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was not capable to serve its people.

“It would be an extra burden over the resources Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if Fata is merged  as the people in the KP cities are raising voices for their basic rights”, said Mufti Ejaz.

Mufti Ejaz said Fata people were passing through a political maturity as they should be given time to decide their future.

The JUI-F leaders announced that they planned to conduct anti Fata merger rallies on January 8 and 15 in Bajaur and Khyber Agency respectively.

The JUI-F leaders said that the governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was a failed to governor constitutionally as he could not remained neutral in the case of Fata reforms. He said the governor should respect the ten million people’s vote they polled to help democracy flourished in Fata. He said the government should arrange grand jirgas of all walks of life in every Fata Agency to provide easy participation to everyone.