KHAR: A sit-in has been announced in Islamabad for April 30 by the FATA Youth Organisation (FYO) on Thursday to pressurise the government into enforcing the proposed reforms in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a local media outlet reported on Thursday.
FYO president and Senior Vice President Usman Momondzai said that delay in the implementation of the reforms was unfair. He explained that FATA residents had expected reforms from the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) government’s FATA reforms committee but were upset when reforms could not be implemented.
Khalid Zaman, Najeebullah Hilal, Muhammad Tayyab, Subhanullah, and Younas Khan, Aziz said that 65 per cent of the population of FATA consisted of youth and that delay in the implementation of the reforms have created unrest among them.
He accused the government of deliberately derailing the reforms process in order to deny the provision of basic rights to FATA residents. He also said that the colonial era FCR (Frontier Crimes Regulation) was a hindrance to socioeconomic development and that FYO was now organising protests to improve the living conditions in FATA.
“We have planned a massive campaign against the government over unneccesary delay in the implmentation of the proposed FATA reforms. A sit-in will be staged in Islamabad on April 30 to pressure the government to repeal the FCR and extend the country’s regular law’s to the tribal areas,” he said.
In addition, he said that a multi-party conference is also scheduled to be held in Peshawar on April 25.