KP - FATA merger: Fazal ur Rehman gives conditional support
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ISLAMABAD: Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazal-u-Rehman conditionally agreed to support the merger of FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The private news channel reported that Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Federal Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch and National Security Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Nasir Janjua in a meeting held lately with Maulana Fazl persuaded him to support the merger.
Mualana agreed on one condition to put forward the infrastructural development and institutional reforms after the PM Abbasi and other informed him that in the recent National Security Committee, all the participants collectively gave their support for the merger.
The issue of the merger of the FATA with KP is one of the pending matters for the incumbent government and has dominated the political discourse of the country in recent weeks.
The KP Assembly had adopted a resolution on December 14, 2016 in favour of merging FATA with KP that would help rehabilitate and reconstruct the infrastructure including roads, communications, power lines, water supply, education and health facilities.
