*PESHAWAR: *The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl Chief Fazal ur Rehman afterfeeling ditched and frustrated over the FATA merger with KP has come upwith his disgruntled plan.

JUI-F has threatened to close down the Pak-Afghan highway and Indus highwayon May 22 in protest against the Federally Administered Tribal Areas’(Fata) likely merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a news conference following an emergency party meeting onSunday, amir of JUI-F’s Fata chapter Mufti Abdul Shakoor, general secretaryMufti Ijaz Shinwari and information secretary Jihad Shah said Fata’s mergerwith the K-P “is an international agenda which will not be supported at anycost.”

They said the party will stage a protest demonstration at the Pak-Afghanhighway in Landi Kotal and a separate one at the Indus Highway in DarraAdam Khel simultaneously against ignoring the will of tribal people andimposing decisions on them against their wishes.

The two highways will be closed for all traffic, they warned.

Earlier today, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced that the partyhad decided to part ways with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) over the implementation of reforms in Fata.

Strongly opposing the 13th Amendment Bill, Rehman termed the reforms aglobal conspiracy. The JUI-F chief claimed that the government had backedoff from the promise it made with their party for not going ahead with themerger; not going ahead with Rewaj Act and not announcing the national andprovincial assembly seats.