Child in landi kotal Khyber Agency FATA should be released immediately

Maaz khan Shinwari a student of class 10 has been put behind bar for last 1 month by Assistant Political Agent, Landi Kotal Khyber Agency-FATA. He is a student of Shinwar Public School Landi Kotal and has been languishing in lock up of Assistant Political Agent. He is only 16 and has been arrested under collective responsibility clause which has now been amended in 2011 by then President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. According to new amendment no child between 5 and 16 will be arrested under said clause. But ironically political Administration of Khyber Agency is quite ignorant of it and have no knowledge of new amendments and Convention on the Rights of Child(CRC) of which Pakistan is a signatory and has ratified it on 12th of November 1990. Pakistan is first Muslim and 6th country in the world to sign this convention and ratified it. When i contacted Meraj Shinwari elder brother of Maaz shinwari in Landi Kotal he said that he and his family have been experiencing life as hell for them. Their brother has been arrested for no crime he has committed. He is just a 10 grade student and he could not sit take his annual metric examination due to his unlawful detention. Now his precious one year was lost. He is an intelligent student and could have obtained excellent position in annual examination if was not detained by Assistant Political Agent, he narrated his sorrowful tale to me. Tribal NGOs Consortium and Child Rights Movement FATA strongly condemn this non serious attitude of political administration towards children and slated them for their ignorance regarding CRC and FCR amendments.
Regards
Zar Ali Khan Afridi