It is now quite clear that there are two distinct schools of thought about the FATA reforms .The first one favours the implementation of recommendations of the FATA reforms ‘ committee with some slight modifications here and there and the other is in favour of a referendum on the issue .This split in opinion was quite visible when a pandemonium broke out in a seminar held recently which was to be presided over by the Governor KPK who left its venue as a protest when two groups of tribesmen came to blows with each other and created a scene.
What is the hurrry?Why should the government rush through things ?Let the national census first take place to ascertain the latest population figure of FATA after which a referendum can be held for sounding out the rank and file tribesmen of FATA as to their future political and administrative set up.Are they ready to do away with the existing system of collective tribal territorial geographical responsibility round which they conduct their day-to-day affairs ?Are they willing to allow the police and the judicial systems in vogue in the revenue districts to replace their present system of governance ?
POSTSCRIPT: The state bank refuses to give details of the persons who managed to get their hefty bank loans written off on various pretext.The reason advanced by it for its refusal is that the law doesn’t allow it to do so.It is a bad law and parlliament had better strike it off.
It is an open secret that the rulers of this county had been instrumental in making National Bank as well as private banks release loans in the name of their blue eyed boys which are then never returned.They get written off on one pretext or the other.The people of this country have got the right to know who are the beneficiaries of these loans .Their faces need to be unmasked.
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