The Fata reforms committee will visit North Waziristan on Monday (today) to take an input from the tribesmen. According to sources in Ministry of States and Frontiers Regions, the committee, headed by Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, will attend a tribal jirga in Khajoori, North Waziristan.
The committee members, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan, Minister for States and Frontier Regions Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Baloch (retd), Prime Minister's Advisor on National Security Nasir Janjua and Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid will meet the jirga members, tribal elders, businessmen, political workers and students to seek their input and suggestions.
North Waziristan is a volatile belt, where the country's security forces have been battling terrorists for the past 19 months.
This will be the third tribal agency the Fata Reforms Committee will be visiting after holding jirgas in Bajaur and Mohmand agencies. Earlier, on December 31, 2015, the committee members visited Bajaur Agency to ascertain the views of tribal maliks, civil society and different political parties.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in November last year, constituted a five-member committee, tasked to undertake reforms in Fata, aimed at bringing the tribal areas and its people into mainstream national politics.
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