Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the passage of the Bill extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Peshawar High Court to the tribal areas in the Senate would prove the first drop of rain in the grant of the civic rights of the tribal people.
Talking to different delegations at Mansoora on Friday, he said that with the passage of the Bill, the hold of the Political Agent in the tribal areas would come to an end and the tribal people would also get their basic rights.
He said that from now on ward, the tribal areas would not be treated as an alien territory and the tribal people would also be treated as Pakistani citizens.
Besides, he said, the Supreme Court would be able to take suo moto notice of the human rights violations in the tribal areas.
While expressing deep gratitude to Allah Almighty on the success of the JI’s prolonged struggle for the tribal people’s rights, he said that the civil and military governments during the last seventy years were to be blamed for governing the tribal areas under the tyrannical FCR under which the Political Agent had the last word.
Sirajul Haq said that with the passage of the Bill, a window had been opened for further reforms, the tribal people had been given the right of representation in the National and the provincial assemblies besides three per cent of the National Finance Commission which was a great step forward.
He said that the JI would not rest till the tribal people were given all their legal rights.
