Hoti wants Fata merged into KP

PESHAWAR: Provincial president of Awami National Party, Ameer Haider Hoti, has stressed the need for immediate steps for merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a meeting of the provincial office-bearers of the party, he said the people of the tribal areas were fed up with the outdated draconian laws of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR).

However, he said it was a matter of serious concern that the federal government was using delaying tactics to stop implementation of the reforms in the tribal areas.

The meeting was also attended by senior-vice president of the party Syed Aqil Shah, general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak and others.

Haider Hoti was also critical of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government, saying the problems of the people in the province were multiplying owing to the flawed policies of the provincial government.

He said the major revenue sources in the province had been privatized during the last four years of the incapable government due to which the province had been deprived of permanent resources.

Haider Hoti hoped the Awami National Party would emerge as single majority party in the next election and the process of development would resume in the province.