Sami calls for Fata’s merger with KP

NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq on Monday said that anti-state elements would continue to use the tribal areas for activities against Pakistan until it was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Speaking to the participants of the Jamaat-e-Islam (JI) long march for the merger of tribal areas into the province at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak here, the Maulana said anti-Pakistan forces would not let the merger materialise.

The participants stopped at the seminary where the JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq received the participants of the long march. The participants also staged a sit-in at the Shubra Chowk.The Maulana said that JUI-S was against the Frontier Crimes Regulation law and had time and again made demands for abolition of this draconian law. He said that tribespeople were the defenders of the country.