Those who addressed the rally included JI Fata chief Haji Sardar, Zarnoor Afridi, Maulana Abdul Hameed Khan, Maulana Waheed Gul, besides JI Khyber chief Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, and deputy Secretary General JI Hafiz Sajid Anwar. On the occasion, Liaqat Baloch appealed to the JUI(F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Mehmood Khan Achakzai not to obstruct the grant of basic rights to the tribal people and to respect their desire for merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said that the Bill for merger should be presented in the assembly forthwith as it would make it clear that who was supporting it and who was against it. He said that the tribal people would take revenge from those who opposed the Bill through their vote.
Speaking on the occasion, JI chief for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mushtaq Ahmed khan said that the British rulers had framed the FCR as an insult to humanity. However, he said, even after 70 years of independence the Pakistani rulers had not thrown off this yoke of slavery from the Tribal people. JI Fata chief Haji Sardar Khan said that the tribal areas spread over 27 thousand sq km but people of the area were living without basic human rights. He said that the tribal people were the custodian of the country's geographical and ideological borders but they were always being looked down upon which was unfair.