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ISLAMABAD: FATA youth Jirga once again demands merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at a press conference here at national press club in Islamabad.

The FATA youth Jirga decided to start a petition campaigning front of country whole press clubs to convince masses in government and out of government on FATA reforms of merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Jirga representing youth from whole FATA demanded that if FATA were not merge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the consequence will be harmful for the whole country.

Addressing to Press conference Nizam-u-din Khan told that government are doing tactics to delay FATA reform but FATA youth are aware of that and we will fight till last for our basic human rights. Khan told further that the whole FATA destroyed in war on terror and now we want merger with KP to mitigate these impacts why government doing tactics to delay these reforms.

It should be mentioned here that in National Assembly last session FATA reforms bill aging out of the agenda on which opposition parties and FATA parliamentarians walk out of the sessions.

Arshad Afridi told that we are hopeless in FATA reforms process that’s why we started our new campaign to convince more people on FATA reforms. We are calling all party Jirga in Islamabad in which we will adopt new strategy on reforms. If the people of tribal areas decided that we want merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa then why the government are not sincere to implement the reforms in tribal areas.

National action plan was formed in country to counter terrorism and extremism, the country leader ship in clause 12 of NAP decided to implement FATA reforms for the stability of the country

Published in Daily Times, December 26^th 2017.