Former MNA Bismillah Khan says "Nauzbilla": Bajaur elders reject FCR changes

Malakand · September 21, 2005, 2:28am

Re: Former MNA Bismillah Khan says “Nauzbilla”: Bajaur elders reject FCR changes

antiobl:

These big bearded big tond (belly) MAToos have gone berserk. FCR is draconian law that has kept Pushtoons in zoo like places called Tribal Agencies. It is time to give the Pushtoon political rights. This Bismillah Khan should be sent to Kandhar so he can live in one-eyed MAToos cave.

Bajaur elders reject FCR changes, want Sharia instead

Staff Report

KHAR: Tribal elders rejected proposed reforms to the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) on Tuesday and demanded the enforcement of Islamic law in Bajaur Agency.

They also warned a “civil war” would engulf the region if the Political Parties Act was extended to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). “We will not accept any alternative to FCR other than Sharia,” former Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Bismillah Khan told reporters after a meeting of tribal elders. “We believe that if political activities are allowed in the tribal areas, it will lead to civil war and anarchy.” The meeting unanimously rejected reforms to the FCR, saying it would only support Islamic law to replace the old system.

On Monday, the major political parties of the country, including Pakistan Muslim League (Q and N), Awami National Party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehman), had welcomed reforms proposed by the FATA Reforms Committee, and asked committee head Justice (r) Mian Ajmal to speed up the process. The Tuesday meeting of key tribal elders was seen as a strong reaction to the committee’s meeting, where political activists had outnumbered FATA reform opponents.

Khan accused the JI of “trying to create disturbances” in Bajaur Agency, as its MNA Haroon Rashid was only developing areas where Jamaat activists lived.

“The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNAs - Haroon Rashid and Maulana Sadiq - have given us nothing but disappointment for the last three years,” Khan told tribal elders.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-9-2005_pg1_6

I am 100% agree with you on this. FCR should be scraped at once and regular laws should be introduced in FATA. But the center is not ready do this.