PTI leaders rejected on Monday the proposed rebirth of the Jirga system in the fused districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying that making such decisions was the prerogative of the provincial government.
At the beginning of the month, a meeting of senior federal and provincial government officials discussed and emphasized the need to revive the Jirga system in the fused districts. A Jirga is a traditional form of conflict resolution, which is mainly found in Pashtun societies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where an elderly council meets to resolve disputes based on local customs and traditions
The meeting discussed ways to promote an effective alternative justice system in tribal districts.
Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad together with other party leaders, the president of the PTI, the lawyer Gohar Ali Khan, said: “In none of the committee meetings was reliving the Jirga system discussed for the tribal areas, and after the 18th amendment, that right was with the provincial government.
“After amendment 25, when the tribal areas merged with KP, the federal government had no right to make a committee there.”
The former governor of KP, Shah Farman, MNA IQBAL Aphridi, KP’s Minister of Finance, AFTAB Alam Afridi, Central Information Secretary of PTI and MNA Sheikh Waqas Akram and others accompanied Gohar.
“I would like to thank the president of the PTI and other leadership for stopping the bill of mines and minerals. When the federal government came to know that this [bill] It would stop, this is where this trick began to access the mines and minerals, ”said Iqbal.
Meanwhile, the KP finance minister said: “Today, the Ministry of Safron (Ministry of States and Frontier) convened a meeting to interfere with the problems of the province, although after the merger, it is completely the right of the provincial government to legislate for the fused districts.
“We have a 2020 law for alternative dispute resolution, and we are trying to improve it, but why does Safron Ministry interfere with the problems of the province?”
He said that the greatest participation in the Prize of the National Commission of the Financial Commission after the merger was not provided by the federal government to KP.
In May, a multiparty conference organized by the National Awami Party rejected the proposed mines and mineral law, 2025, declaring a “clear violation of the Pakistan Constitution.”
The bill recommended the establishment of licensing and exploration sections in the direction of the direction of Mines and Minerals, as well as a force of mines and minerals in the province.
Although the bill establishes the protection of the rights and training of the owner and other opportunities for local communities, it does not say that these communities receive some participation of mining operations in their respective areas.
