PESHAWAR: FATA Lawyers Forum (FLF) has demanded the unanimous endorsement of bill regarding merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Prvince, and urged the parliamentarians to support the legislation to mainstream tribal region. Addressing a news conference at press club, FLF President Ejaz Khan Muhmand said that FATA Parliamentarians had drafted a bill, calling to abolish tribal areas, and merge them into KP, which presented in Parliament for its formal consent. He, however, said that the legislation is yet to endorse despite its presentation of a year ago. Flanked by the Secretary General FLF, Farhadullah Afridi, members Farooq Afridi, Shakirullah, and Taj Mehal Afridi, he explained that the draft bill calls for amendments to articles 246 and 247 of the Constitution to change the status of the tribal areas. He said that tribal people had deprived from all fundamental and constitutional rights, due to absence of judicial system in FATA. For this purpose, he said FLF has initiated struggle for extension of jurisdiction of higher courts to tribal areas. He said the tribal elders had consulted about the status of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. He said the resolutions passed during tribal grand ‘jirgas’, had also unanimously endorsed the merger of FATA into KP. Commenting on the comprehensive report of Fata Reforms Committee (FRC), headed by PM’s Advisor, Sartaj Aziz, he said they have reservations on some points of the report. He added the legislation was also under discussion in parliament in the light of all these recommendations.