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Frustrated Fazal ur Rehman comes up with his disgruntled move over FATA merger with KP
21 May, 2018
*PESHAWAR: *The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl Chief Fazal ur Rehman after feeling ditched and frustrated over the FATA merger with KP has come up with his disgruntled plan.
JUI-F has threatened to close down the Pak-Afghan highway and Indus highway on May 22 in protest against the Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ (Fata) likely merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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Addressing a news conference following an emergency party meeting on Sunday, amir of JUI-F’s Fata chapter Mufti Abdul Shakoor, general secretary Mufti Ijaz Shinwari and information secretary Jihad Shah said Fata’s merger with the K-P “is an international agenda which will not be supported at any cost.”
They said the party will stage a protest demonstration at the Pak-Afghan highway in Landi Kotal and a separate one at the Indus Highway in Darra Adam Khel simultaneously against ignoring the will of tribal people and imposing decisions on them against their wishes.
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The two highways will be closed for all traffic, they warned.
Earlier today, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced that the party had decided to part ways with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the implementation of reforms in Fata.
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Strongly opposing the 13th Amendment Bill, Rehman termed the reforms a global conspiracy. The JUI-F chief claimed that the government had backed off from the promise it made with their party for not going ahead with the merger; not going ahead with Rewaj Act and not announcing the national and provincial assembly seats.