A large number of tribal people under the banner of FATA political alliance on Tuesday continued a three-day sit-in in front of the Peshawar Press Club demanding complete abolition of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and integration of Fata into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Leaders from different political parties, lawyers, students and tribal elders are participating in the sit-in, which will continue for three days.
Wearing black armbands and holding banners and placards inscribed with anti-FCR slogans, the participants of the sit-in shouted full-throat slogans against the colonial law.
They demanded that tribal people should be given their constitutional rights as enjoyed by people of rest of the country.
Speaking on the occasion speakers rejected the Fata Reforms Committee constituted by the prime minister saying, the committee had no representation of Fata people.
The Fata Political Alliance leadership said the three-day sit-in would be followed by a series of protest demonstrations and public meetings in different tribal agencies against the FCR.
They further said that the first of the protest demonstration and public meeting would be held in Bara.
“We have been enslaved through the colonial law FCR, as all our constitutional, political, social and human rights have been usurped under the FCR,” remarked an enraged protester.
“If our demands are not accepted, we will extend our protest to Islamabad. We may also hold a protest camp in front of the governors’ house,” said another protester.
The Fata Political Alliance had also held a protest demonstration in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad on November 17, last year.