There has been a common perception that when the government wants to bury bad news, it comes out with the idea to form a committee to distract people’s attention from the main issue. The five-member committee on Fata reforms has done exactly this. The main issue of abolishing the FCR and introducing social reforms has been left in a limbo after the resignation of Sardar Mehtab Abbasi as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor. He was one of the members of the committee.
The committee is also without any local representative. This shows the government’s seriousness in enacting reforms in Fata. The task is too gigantic, too complex, and too momentous for haphazard, though well-intentioned, approaches. The government should stop posturing and get down to Fata reforms earnestly.
Rafiuddin Mehsud
South Waziristan Agency
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