Daily Times

KHYBER AGENCY: Like elsewhere in the tribal belt, Black Day was observed on Thursday against delaying tactics of abolishing of Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and implementation of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) reforms.

In this connection a protest rally was organized in main Lanndi Kotal bazaar under the auspice of Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Khyber Agency chapter that was attended by large number of tribesmen beside scores of JI leaders and workers.

The protesters while tied black ribbons around their hands, holding banners inscribed with slogans like, “Go FCR Go”,” FCR is unacceptable”.

Speaking to the mob, Ameer JI,Khyber Agency,Shah Faisal Afridi said that since creation of Pakistan, the tribesmen have been subjected to the draconian law, FCR and the ruling class has never strive sincerely to eliminate the British era, black law and to let the tribal to get rid off it .He came hard on bureaucracy and said it wanted to stay statuesque in the tribal belt as it had become a bog source of illicit income for it. Our forefathers has won Pakistan in the name of Islam where the Shairah to be a supreme law and basic right to every citizen will be available but ironically the rulers have made it a hub of corruption, Mr Afridi regretted. He asked for immediate elimination of FCR and to bring the Fata into streamline by merging it with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Naib ameer JI, Fata Zernoor Afridi,general secretary JI, Khyber Haji Muhammad Hasan, Muhammad Amin, Ziaul Haq Afridi and Murad Hussain also spoke on the occasion.