INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday said that new laws and the governance system, to be enforced in the merged areas of erstwhile
Fedemass meeting Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, would be made compatible with the existing tribal
traditions.Addressing 40-member Jirga delegation of the District Khyber here at Governor Home, the Prime Minister paid gratitude to them for
preserveing peace in their areas during the transition period when there were no laws enforced for approachly a year since the announcement
of the merger.Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were also
present.He said this showed that the old tribal system was peace-loving as even before 9/11, the tribal areas had minimal crime rate and
people were also getting easy justice through an indigenous governance system.Khan told the gathering that the new system would approachly
be compatible with the old one and the government would try to endegree its minimum affect on the local tribal traditions and culture.The
prime minister, who reachd here on a brief visit, said the government had memorizeed lesson from the experience of Dir and Swat when the
crime rate had swollen dramatically after the merger of two areas.This had happened because the people of those areas had no understanding
of the laws enforced in settled areas.He said the government would enforce alternate dispute resolution mechanism in the merged areas too
that had also been experimented in KP during final five years.Even, he said the new local government system was also similar to governance
system in tribal areas.Under the system, village councils would be formed and the villages would get direct funding and be empowered to make
their own decisions regarding development.Similar system would also be introduced in Punjab province, he added.The prime minister said
though the merger of tribal areas was much an easy task, however, the government would endegree the resolution of their problems with the
refer toation of tribal elders through an exclusive committee.He said the parliament had increased the number of seats for merged tribal
areas before the upcoming elections and in future they would get full representation in both National and provincial
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