PESHAWAR: After the merger of Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa the KP re-designated the positions of political agentswith deputy commissioners (DCs) in Fata , said in a notification issued byHome and Tribal Affairs Department.
The posts of additional political agents and assistant political agentswere also replaced by additional deputy commissioners and assistantcommissioners respectively with immediate effect, the notification said.
The development comes weeks after a session of the Khyber PakhtunkhwaAssembly passed the KP-FATA merger bill with two-thirds majority, after itis already approved from the upper and lower chambers of the Parliament.
KP assembly passes FATA merger bill with two-thirds majority. The sessionheld on May 27 to vote for the bill was presided over by KP AssemblySpeaker Asad Qaiser, where Chief Minister KP Perveez Khattak was alsopresent.
The vote count showed that 92 provincial lawmakers voted in favor of thebill and seven in opposition.