Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Fata Thursday announced that it will launch a masses' awareness drive against Pata and Fata Action in Aid Power Regulation 2011 and would move apex court in this regard. The announcement was made during a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club by JI Ameer and former MNA, Haroon-ul-Rasheed on Thursday.
He said that the tribal people and right activists have completely rejected the regulation, saying the law is against the constitution, ethics and justice. He explained that the political administration has been empowered under the law to give death sentence, life imprisonment, huge penalties, and confiscation of property. He maintained that the regulation has also allowed putting a person in a hidden place for long time, raiding and razing houses, and covert residential areas into cantonment.
He further said that the regulation has indicated most of crimes relating to extra judicial court and constitution, in which including thousands of innocent tribal people extra judicial murder, injured, razing and demolition houses and displacement.
Rasheed said that the law was promulgated on February 1, 2011 and termed it another clear example of extra judicial court, and enumeration of all inhuman crimes in the tribal areas. He observed that tribal people are being deprived of their legal and constitutional right since the creation of Pakistan. Tribal people are being humiliated and basic human rights violated under the draconian law Frontier Crime Regulation (FCR).
He recalled that Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani had announced at national assembly floor to abolish the law. Similarly, President Asif Ali Zardari had proposed reforms in the FCR on August 14, 2009. He lamented that the government did not honour its commitments yet.
The former MNA announced that they will launch a masses awareness campaign after Ramazan against Pata and Fata Action Aid of Civil Power Regulation 2011 by holding seminars and sensitisation sessions. He said the All Parties' Conference would also hold in federal capital Islamabad and stage protest rallies and demonstrations in front of Governor House in this regard. He said they would also move court against the regulation, saying judicial experts' panel has already been constituted for consultation on the issue.
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