A female political activist Kinza Iqtedar vowed to fight for socio-economic rights of FATA's people while asserting for early merger of the tribal region with KPK. Kinza who is member of Fata Political Parties Alliance said that she will launch country-wide campaign to bring the FATA's in the country's mainstream. Addressing At a news conference here, she said she will particularly focus on provision of basic facilities to depressed sections of the society, particularly women and children.

She urged that FATA's women should be accommodated against the special seats in the Parliament and KPK's assembly. Hailing from Bannu, Kinza who is known as as "Qaida-e-Qabaail" (leader of tribes), in the women circles in KPK said the political people like Maulana Fazalur Rehman and Mahmood Khan Achakzai were working just for their political gains, having no interest for uplift of the FATA's people.

The people of FATA, particularly women and children are having very miserable life, and deprived of basic health and educational facilities. She announced to launch a "Rozgar scheme" for women in the FATA, so that they could be able to earn livelihood to meet the basic needs.

Kinza who is also an active member of Jamaat-i-Islami said Maulana Sirajul Haq is an honest and committed leader who is working tirelessly to improve the lot of the common man. She announced that she will soon visit the Tribal's agencies to motivate the people to come out for redressal of their genuine grievances.

Kinza condemned the murder of a little girl in Mardan and called upon the media to play its role for bringing the culprits to justice as they had played in cases of Naqeeb Ullah Mehsood and Zainab. She emphasized that it was prerequisite that the people of FATA must be given their political right in order to complete elimination of terrorism from these areas.-PR

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