ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Minister for Law and Justice Syed Ali Zafar has said that all immediate steps including administrative, financial and judicial must be undertaken for long term guidelines as the FATA merger implementation process must be made smooth and successful at all costs.
While chairing a meeting of the committee constituted by the Prime Minister of Pakistan for facilitating FATA’s and ‘PATA’s merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Islamabad on Saturday, the minister emphasized the need for achieving targets that he was briefed about particularly the administrative, legal, financial and legislative issues coming in the way of smooth transition regarding merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Syed All Zafar also constituted two Sub Committees comprising officials from the ministry of law, interior and finance to sort out financial matters as well as drafting rules and laws to facilitate the merger process.
The Sub Committees are tasked to present recommendations in regards to the viable solutions of various administrative and legal issues in detail in the upcoming meeting.
The Additional Chief Secretary KPK also apprised the minister for the law regarding the status of rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their respective areas.
The meeting was held to review the decisions that were taken in the last meeting.
The meeting was attended by Secretary SAFRON, Secretary Planning, Representative, GHQ MO Directorate, ACS FATA, AS PM office, Mastery Finance KPK, Secretary Home KPK and other officials from Ministry of Law& Justice, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, SAFRON Ministry, Ministry of Finance and Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR).
