Ayesha Tanzeem
VOA News
May 24, 2018
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s national assembly passed a historic constitutional amendment Thursday, paving the way to bringing the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas, known as FATA, into the political mainstream, just a week before the end of its tenure. The bill will be taken up Friday in the Senate.
Until now, the area bordering Afghanistan was treated as a separate administrative unit with limited interference from the Pakistani government. It was loosely governed by local tribal law and British-era regulations. It also lagged behind the rest of the country in terms of infrastructure and basic facilities like schools and hospitals.
The region was home to various militant groups that had entrenched themselves over decades, starting with the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
After U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan, many runaway members of al-Qaida, the Taliban and other militant groups were believed to have taken refuge in these tribal regions, using friendships and links they had developed during the “Soviet jihad” and subsequent Taliban rule.
“The tribal area was used as a special area to create Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union. … Then the militant groups recognized the loopholes in the law and based themselves here,” said political analyst Hassan Askari Rizvi.
Ever since the Taliban insurgency against the American and NATO presence in Afghanistan gained ground in the early 2000s, the United States and Afghanistan have repeatedly alleged that militants carrying out attacks in Afghanistan have havens in Pakistan, especially FATA.
Over the last 10 years, Pakistan’s military has carried out multiple operations in the area and claims it has eliminated the havens.
“Our assessment is that the regular safe havens are no more there. Still, these people come and go to Afghanistan,” Rizvi said. He said this was easy to do since the regular Taliban fighters, unlike the top leadership, were not easily identifiable. They could cross the border and live in the tribal area with a relative or in a refugee camp.
The militancy, and the military operations to clear it, created grievances among the local population, giving rise to a youth-driven movement for the rights of FATA called the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement.
A leader of the movement, Mohsin Dawar, said the merger on its own would not solve their grievances. The movement is calling for the formation of a truth and reconciliation commission to listen to the grievances of the local population and find a solution.
During his address to the assembly, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the most urgent need of the area was to bring it to par with the rest of the country in terms of development. He called on the House to commit to provide FATA with almost $9 million a year for the next 10 years for development.
Efforts to change the status of the area had been ongoing for almost four years; however, the bill was delayed because of opposition from two of the government’s allies in the parliament. They wanted FATA to become an independent province with its own provincial government, chief minister and governor.
The current bill calls for the area to be merged into the neighboring Khyberpakhtunkhwa (KPK) province.
The transition period will last several years.
YOU ARE WRONG !
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OT IS THE ANGLO/US
PARASITES
WHO
ARE
DICTATING PAKISTAN INTO IT.
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I CALL IT:
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A
“DIRTY GREAT GAME”
IT PROVES IT ALL;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
PAKISTAN IS NOT
AN
INDEPENDENT COUNTRY !
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ITS MATERIAL AND HUMAN
RESOURCES
ARE ENTIRELY
CONTROLLED; EXPLOITED AND MANIPULATED
AT THE DISPOSAL OF
THE AGENTS
OF
ANGLO/US
PARASITES.
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*WAKE UP
PAKISTAN !
*AFGHANISTAN
WILL NEVER HAVE
PEACE
AS LONG AS
PAKISTAN
REMSINS ENSLAVED- PERIOD.
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Now- that is the fact !
YES;
you won’t see any sign of
God-given
light of peace, in Afghanistan,
as long as the
Anglo/US
remain in charge
of the
enslaved
Pakistan.
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So;
what is the matter with
you all
“goofy Pakistanis” ?????
*WAKE UP !
TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS ARE
TREATED LIKE SLAVES- THEY ARE
NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO MANUFACTURE THE SIMPLEST BICYCLE PARTS IN DEPRIVED PAKISTAN.
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AND IT IS ALL THE JAPANESE AUTOMOBILES THAT ARE JAMMING THE BUSY STREETS, ROADS.AND INTERSECTIONS.
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The Anglo.US politicians proclaim to the world that deprived Pakistan possesses atomic bomb, (and only one), which seriously require rather extremely sophisticated technological and theoretical know-how knowledge.
*POOR
PAKISTAN HAS NONE OF IT.
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COME ON !
*Well; then the question
arises whether why the
Pakistani people seem so happy sometimes and so proud and content
about the fake accomplishment ?????
Well obviously; the ANGLO/US rats
are making fun of Pakistan- and not only that; they are also shamelessly insulting the intelligence and common sense of all PAKISTANIS; ALL “200 MILLIONS”
OF THEM.
*AND IRONICALLY; THE PAKISTANI STUPID ELITE ARE JUST ENJOYING THE FAKE SHOWS AND THEIR FREE MEALS.
THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. THEIR FOREIGN MASTERS ARE HAPPY AND CONTENT AS WELL- FOR BEING ABLE TO CONTROL ALL THE VALUABLE
HUMAN AND MATERIAL
RESOURCES
OF NAIVE PAKISTANIS; JUST RXACTLY LIKE
MILKING A
FAT COW,
NOW; HOW
CAN YOU
BEAT THAT ?????
*GOOD LUCK !
NO DOUBT; THERE ARE
GREAT MINDS IN PAKISTAN- BUT; IF
ONLY THEY WOULD HAVE THE
RIGHT CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITIES
TO MAKE
THE WHOLE REGION, TOGETHER WITH THE REST, AS GLORIOUS AS USED TO BE; ALBEIT, ON MODERN
CIVILIZED BASIS.
LET US HOPE
FOR
THAT
BLESSED DAY !!!!!