ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for withdrawing the FATA Reforms Bill at the eleventh hour from the National Assembly’s agenda on Monday. In a statement, the PPP chairman said that the decision of PML-N to withdraw the bill depicts its hatred towards the people of FATA. He pledged that his party would merge FATA into Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as per the aspiration of the people of tribal areas. He pointed out that in August 2011, President Asif Ali Zardari had amended the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), a British-era law curtailing FATA residents’ rights, and extended the Political Parties Act (PPA), 2002 to tribal areas. He vowed to work for KP-FATA merger, extension of high courts jurisdiction to tribal areas and abolishment of the FCR. Published in Daily Times, December 12th 2017.