PESHAWAR-
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday demanded federal government to equip Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP) police with the resources to combat terrorism, private media reported.
While addressing a press conference in Peshawar, PTI chairman said that center should deploy Frontier Constabulary (FC) forces in the province.
“We demand the government to ensure FC deployment on its original positions — which were to protect the KP province from unrest in the tribal areas,” Imran demanded.
He further reiterated that the KP government’s demand of terrorism-combating equipment was not new and that the province had requested for it in July 2013 as well.
Declaring terrorism a national issue Imran said that KP is on the frontline to combat terrorism.
He put forward three-point strategy to reduce militancy: KP police to be provided with interceptors to trace telephone calls, all SIMs which are not registered on the user’s identity to be declared illegal and to start integrating Fata into the national mainstream.
PTI chairman requested federal government to patronize displaced persons.
“Most of the IDPs are settled in Bannu, making its population almost double…that is putting all the pressure on the provincial government,” he said.
Talking about the resettling of Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) Imran said “the KP government is already overstretched financially with more than 70 per cent of the industries non-functional in the province.”
Speaking about the strategy to absorb tribal areas into Pakistan Imran said, “this could be initiated by hiring its youth in the police department.”
For a long-term solution to establish peace in the restive tribal areas, he said that the government must control unregulated movement of refugees coming in from Afghanistan.
The PTI chairman also talked about security measures that are under consideration once the schools are reopen.
“IG KP police is working on introducing a system to alert security forces of any terrorist activity by simply dialing a number,” he said.