Shamsul-Amin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Hundreds of Jamiat Ulema Islam supporters and residents Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against the Fata merger in the Takkia area of Landikotal tehsil in Khyber tribal district.
The protest demonstration was organized by Jamiat Ulema Islam with the collaboration of tribal residents. They were holding black and party flags a.d chanted slogans against the Fata merger.
They marched on the Pak-Afghan road in the Takkia area of Landikotal Sultankhel and briefly blocked the road for general traffic.
Speaking on the occasion JUI-F Landikotal leaders Qari Saeed, Jahangir Afridi, and Muhammad Ayaz said that hidden powers and foreign agendas on the people of Fata. They said
They alleged that none of the tribal residents was taken on board which create a political vacuum.
Qari Saeed said those who merge Fata should give an alternate system while replacing the centuries-old tribal system. He said the newly introduced system was not acceptable to tribal people.
He said that police and the Patwari system were not acceptable to them as they had a strong cultural bond and an organized life.
They said the decision was taken without the consent of ten million tribal people.
They said that JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had called a grand jirga on June 25 in Peshawar, adding that Fazlur Rehman would announce his strategy to start countrywide agitation against the Fata merger.
