PESHAWAR: All Fata Political Alliance, a union of different parties, has affirmed the resolve to continue struggle for abolishment of Frontier Crimes Regulation, merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and restoration of peace in all tribal regions.

The representatives of the alliance belonging to different tribal agencies also set up a protest camp outside Peshawar Press Club on Monday against the Fata Reforms Committee, constituted by the government.

The protesters displayed banners and placards inscribed with demands for scrapping of FCR, rehabilitation of displaced tribal people, and reconstruction of buildings of educational institutions, hospitalsand other offices.

Speaking on the occasion, All Fata Political Alliance president Haji Mohammad Iqbal Afridi, who is also a leader of PTI, said that they had already rejected the government`s Fata Reforms Committee because the body was constituted against the will of tribal people.

He demanded extension of jurisdiction of Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court to Fata. He said that they launched the protest in a state of compulsion as government was not paying any attention to them.

Mr Afridi said that the camp was set up as government`s failed to pay serious attention to solution of the problems of tribal people. He said that entire Fata was against the FCR but federal government was least bothered to scrap it.

He said that political administration was enjoying unlimited powers in the tribal regions where local people were not given basic facilities.

`Though successive governments claim to have emended laws but people of Fata are still playing in the hands of political authorities.

Everyone fearsforlife and propertyin the prevailing uncertain situation,` said Mr Afridi.

He said that merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the only way to get the tribal people out of deprivation and hopelessness.

Spealcing on the occasion, Fata Lawyers` Forum president Rahim Shah Afridi said that there was no competent authority to execute the laws extended to Fata. He said that the required laws could be extended under Article 247 of Constitution but federal government was least bothered to take any serious step in that regard.

Zar Noz Afridi, the general secretary of the alliance and a leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, said that the displaced families belonging to different tribal regions were living in miserable conditions in the camps and slum areas in the province and needed immediate attention of the government.

deputy general secretary of the alliance Ijaz Ahmed Mohmand, Jangez Khan of Pakistan People`s Party, Nisar Mohammad of Awami National Party and Advocate Ijaz Mohmand besides other tribal elders also spoke on the occasion.