Members of tribal lawyers' administrative committee from different tribal agencies have termed the All FATA Lawyers Forum (AFLF) as defunct and unconstitutional and are demanding for reorganising and for giving representation to all tribal regions in the forum by holding fair election.
Speaking at the news conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, the head of the committee, Abdul Karim Masood, Advocate, said that the formation of All FATA Lawyers' Forum is totally unconstitutional, wherein tribal areas have not been given true representation in it.
Abdul Karim said that members have been selected in a few tribal agencies and ignored the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's five divisions, including Malakand, Kohat, Bannu, D.I.Khan and Mardan. He said that All FATA Lawyers' Forum isn't true presentation of the tribal people and region.
Flanked by other members of the committee, he said that a conspiracy is being hatched to divide the tribal people by such unconstitutional steps. "We will foil any move to disintegrate the tribal people," he maintained. Masood said the illegal formation of forum is tantamount to treason with constitution as lawyers from different tribal agencies and Provincial Administrative Tribal Areas (PATA) are ignored. He informed that they have planned to reorganise and reconstitute the All FATA Lawyers' Forum very shortly, wherein all parts of the province would be given representation.
He informed that a consultation process would be initiated after the Ramazan with the tribal lawyers to give practical reorganise the forum. For the purpose, he added a 20 members' committee has been constituted with the consent of tribal lawyers in Peshawar High Court. He claimed that tribal lawyers play an important role for provision of justice and constitutional rights to tribal people and raise voice at both provincial and Federal level for them. He said that the amendments to Frontier Crime Regulation Act, formation of FATA tribunal and FATA Prosecution Department are the main objectives of the tribal lawyers.
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