Saturday, April 16, 2016

FR Peshawar-FATA dwellers want action against administration for biased decision

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/383780/fr-peshawar-dwellers-want-action-against-administration-for-biased-decision/

F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Residents of Rajmir Khel tribe of Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar have asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor, additional chief secretary Fata and federal minister for SAFRON to take action against political administration of FR Peshawar for forcibly expelling Rajmir Khel tribe over a monetary dispute with opponent party.
Zar Ali Khan Afridi who is president of Fata Commission of Human Rights and resident of Jankor Hassankhel of FR Peshawar told media in Peshawar that there was a money dispute between Israr Afridi of Rajmir Khel and Awa Khan Afridi of Ghazi Khel since long. However, after some time the quarrel among them resolved via tribal Jirga, he said and adding that Israr Afridi has fled away from his area and he is absconder.
Mr Afridi further said that Awa Khan of Ghazi Khel took this opportunity as a blessing in disguise and lodged an FIR with Assistant Political Agent Tariq Khan once again. Political administration took action over FIR and formed a tribal Jirga comprising of two tribal elders from same area who submitted a detailed report to assistant political agent, he stated.
According to report, the Rajmirkhel tribe was made as scrape goat and Awa Khan of Ghazi Khel was supported as he is an influential personality in the area. The Jirga members are accused of taking side of a party and they had taken money as bribe from rival party to turn their decision against Israr Khan of Rajmir Khel, he informed. 
The political administration is said to be implementing its verdict against a particular tribe namely Rajmir Khel for committing crime but in fact no one in this said tribe is involved in crime, he said and adding the alleged man Israr Afridi has already left the area. It is believed that if biased decision was implemented, hundreds of thousands of tribal families including women and children would be greatly suffered. 
He further said they have will have to leave their homes and villages because they will have no alternate either to pay back money or leave area. The latter is an option because this tribe is impoverished. Their only crime if there is any will be that they belong to a tribe of Israr Afridi who had money dispute with a person of another tribe which has already been resolved, he described.
People who are victims are punished on the basis of collective responsibility clause of infamous and inhuman draconian regulations of 1901 called Frontier Crimes Regulation or simply FCR. But Political Administration of FR Peshawar is quite ignorant about the fact that this regulation has already been amended in 2011 by then government of Yousaf Raza Gillani Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan Peoples Party.
He urged relevant authorities to take notice of injustices made by administration officials with a particular tribe and punish those who are involved in the practice. According to amended FCR no person can be arrested over the sin or crime of another person of same tribe.
If the relevant tribe was affected, the the present political administration will violate all national and international laws, conventions, covenants, declarations and the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 which protects all basic human rights of women and children in particular, said Zar Ali Khan Afridi. 

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