291,082 TDP families return

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has ensured return of 291,082 families of temporarily dislocated persons till date while process of remaining 44,960 families is expected to complete by end of April this year.

The government is trying at all possible fronts to return entire 336,042 displaced TDP families to their areas of origin. Sources at States and Frontier Regions on Saturday, while highlighting reforms in Fata formulated under National Action Plan, said a high powered Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) Reforms Committee has been constituted by prime minister for its mainstreaming. 

The Committee undertook extensive consultations with all stakeholders, already submitted its report to Prime Minister and was also placed before both houses of parliament. The report has proposed merger of Fata with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as the best available option for mainstreaming Fata. 

The sources said the report has also proposed initiation of a number of actions in the judicial, administrative, political and development sectors leading up to FATA's integration with KPK.