Political Administration fined students for staging a protest against arrest of their fellow student by Political Agent

It was January 7, 2010 when, in Jamrud, Khyber Agency FATA the students of various education institutions came to the streets and road after hearing that the political Administration had arrested one of their students in a so called search operation. The student was sent to jail. The students demanded of the Political Administration to release their fellow student as he was an innocent person and was never involved in subversive activities. The political Administration registered a case against 20 students leaders and fined them 50000(Pakistani Rupees) each for staging a protest against the Administration and in favor of their fellow student. Latter on 7 out of 20 students were exonerated of the fine but the rest of were ordered to deposit the fine immediately for they had violated political Administration law where there is no such permission for any body to protest on any thing happens to them. They will have to keep mum and tolerate every type of the brutality and barbarism of the Political Administration. This is called the black law of FCR which is imposed on FATA and this law does not permit any body to stage a demo, issue press release or at least to protest for some one who is incarcerated in jail for the crime he/she does not know. The political Administration convened a Jirga of the tribal Mashran and directed them to accept the bail of the students who had protested. Mashran accepted the demand of Political Agent/Assistant Political Agent at Jamrud Tehsil. There have been almost 7 months that the Mashran demand of the students to deposit the fine otherwise they will go to the jail.

In FATA where there is militancy all around. Most of the schools are closed and students suffered heavily. The economy is deteriorated. The education ratio is at lowest ebb but still the political Administration has been putting fine on the students which further alienate the students to continue study.
Tribal NGOs Consortium demands of the Political Administration to issue the order to remit the fine on students so that they could continue their study because students are always out of pockets and such financial hardships will further aggravate their problems and will create hurdles in their way to keep their study continued.

Regards
Zar Ali Khan Musazai(Afridi)
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar/FATA
tncfata@gmail.com
+92-3015963337

The following commodities are needed to help the flood victims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

Subject: The following commodities are needed to help the flood victims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

If you are willing to contribute, or know somebody who can help, please contact the following:

Besides sending cash through below mentioned Civil Society organizations, you can support by providing following commodities.
* Clothing: Clothes of various sizes, Beddings, Shoes
* Utensils: Jerricans (large plastic cans that hold 20 liters of water or other liquids), Crockery, Buckets
* Toiletries: Tissues, Soaps, Dettol (antibacterial cleaners), Towels
* Food: Rice, Sugar, Flour (Atta), Onions, Potatoes, Cooking oil, Tea, Milk (tetra packs or powder), Safe drinking water, Cooked Food

Medicines:

1. Water purification tablets.
2. Life saving drugs.
3. Vaccines for malaria, cholera, typhoid, influenza.
4. Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz .
5. Antibiotics e.g. tetnus, amoxil, gentamycin.
6. IV cannulas
7. IV Drip sets
8. IV drips: normal saline, ringerlactate
9. Local anesthetics (injections)
10. Cotton bandages, cotton.
11. Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers.
12. Suturing materials, Skin staples.



Regards

Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
&
Executive Director
Society for the Rights and Development
Peshawar/FATA
+92-3159195919
+92-5253154

(Those who want to help the needy people should deposit their alms, funds etc. in the Bank Account titled: society for Rights and Development, 0959-79001513-03, Habib Bank Ltd. Peshawar Super Market, Peshawar Cantt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Branch code: 0959)

2. Citizen Rights and sustainable Development

Humanitarian Assistance, Urgent help needed

Humanitarian Assistance, Urgent help needed.

PESHAWAR, July 31: Various civil society organisations under the banner of the Network for Humanitarian Assistance have appealed to the donor agencies, federal government, political parties and philanthropists to immediately provide relief to the rains and flood-affected people.
Speaking at a joint press conference at Peshawar Press Club here on Saturday, representatives of the NGOs led by Ijaz Durrani, Idress Kamal and Zar Ali Khan said that large number of people across the province needed food, medicines and shelter on emergency basis.

It was not possible for the provincial government to meet the requirements of these people, they said, adding that it was obligation of the federal government, overseas Pakistanis, United Nations, foreign missions, international community, NGOs and well-off people to help them.

They feared that if the needy people were not supported promptly, there was a likelihood of the loss of human lives on large-scale. Immediate work, they said, was to rescue the people stranded at different buildings and provide them with food items.

Referring to the official figure of the death toll (450), they said the actual number might be much higher as, according to them, there was no access of government to the flood-hit areas and telephone network was also not functioning to get exact information.

The NGOs representatives pointed out human losses, destruction of government installations, infrastructure and livestock in Malakand, Dir, Swat, Nowshera, Charsadda, Peshawar, Fata, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Lakki Marwat, Bannu, Mansehara, Haripur and other areas.

Presently, they said, helicopters could prove useful for the transportation of relief goods, including food, to the stranded people as vehicles could not move in the floodwater and mud.

They said arrangements for the affected people were deficient and most of them were living under open sky, and could mot move as floods had swept away the link roads and bridges.
Regards

Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
&
Executive Director
Society for the Rights and Development
Peshawar/FATA
+92-3159195919

(Those who want to help the needy people should deposit their alms, funds etc. in the Bank Account titled: society for Rights and Development, 0959-79001513-03, Habib Bank Ltd. Peshawar Super Market, Peshawar Cantt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Branch code: 0959)

2. Citizen Rights and sustainable Development
A/C 1-20311-714-101707, Arif Habib Bank Ltd. Deans Trade Center, Peshawar, Cantt.

An appeal to national and international organizations, Pakhtun Diaspora, national and international community

For the last 4-days there has been raining in almost all parts and districts/Agencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA which caused a lot of destruction and devastated many houses especially huts and mud built houses. The flood caused due to heavy downpour and gushed into the settlements especially in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has demolished almost all houses and million of the inmates are stranded in water. Those who have remained stranded in their demolished houses are in miserable conditions and are having no option except to weep or pray to God to help them all. There are many instances where the family members have been divided into two parts. The parents particularly fathers have remained in the safer areas while their children who remain homes at time of the rain got stranded and are still in same condition. Those children have been weeping for the last three days and nights but there is non to come to their rescue and get them rid of this miserable condition and to take them to some safer areas and provide them with food and safe potable waters. The stranded people especially women and children are having nothing to eat as the little or small stock they had has already either finished or drained by the flood water. There are sick and old people also who are still in trouble stranded there in their houses with no medicines and other edible. This situation is not related with one or two particular area. The entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been facing with same situations and people are in great trouble. They need to be evacuated first and then other facilities and needs be provided on emergency steps. The TV Channels and other humanitarian institutions have been calling the government to come to the rescue but the situations are so worst and are out of the control that only the government will not be able to handle it alone. The governments are not capable in even shiny days to help the people how can it would be able to come in help the citizens in rainy days?
The people need food, clean drinking water, clothes, tents, edibles, Medicines, and above all their evacuation is foremost needed and for this purpose small boats are required on emergency bases to bring the stranded people out of their places to comparatively safer places and spots.


Regards

Zar ali Khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Emails: srd.org.pk@gmail.com
tncfata@gmail.com

+92-3159195919
Peshawar

Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns killing of two Christian brothers in Faisalabad

Tribal NGOs Consortium strongly condemns killing of the two Christian brothers in Faisalabad Punjab by the religious fundamentalist elements who have made the society as hostage. Killing a human being should not be justified by just saying that he or she said some blasphemous remarks against a religious entity or sacred place and book etc. There are many people in this society who have their own grudges against people of the other sect or religion. They use the religion to justify their wrongdoings but it could not be justified in any case. Individuals are not permitted to harm a citizen or to kill him/her. This is an inhuman act and is to be condemned. The government is demanded to take action against such unlawful wrong doings, arrest the culprits and give them punishment as per law of the land.

Regards
Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar/FATA
tncfata@gmail.com
www.tncfata.blogspot.com

Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns suicide attack in Mahmand Agency,FATA

We were shocked to hear the sad news of the gory suicide incident in Mahmand Agency, FATA in which more than 50 innocent people were martyred and more than 80 were severely wounded. FATA and its people have been suffering for the last many years and especially after 2001 when the extremism and terrorism took the area into its grip and made the people of FATA forced to either migrate to comparatively safer areas of the province or had to live on the terms and conditions of the militants and military alike.
The recent report of the Amnesty International is an eye opener in which it was clearly stated that more than 4 million innocent tribal people are hostage to the militants and military alike. People of the FATA are living as IDPs and they have no basic amenities for the life. Recently about 40 thousands people were forced to leave the area in FR Peshawar by the apparently militants. The stories of the trouble and agony of the people in FR-Peshawar were published in various newspapers and were highlighted in media but still to no avail.
Tribal NGOs Consortium condemns the suicide incident in Mahmand Agency once again and demands of the government and other human rights organizations to do some thing positive and practical to save the people of FATA from such inhuman and barbaric acts.

Regards
Zar ali khan
Chairman
Tribal NGOs Consortium
Peshawar
tncfata@gmail.com
+923015963337

Amnesty International and FATA

Amnesty International and FATA

By Zar Ali Khan Musazai

In a recent Report issued by Amnesty International regarding Human Rights situations in FATA concern was shown that nearly 4 million people in FATA live under Taliban rule where they suffer human rights abuses from both militants and the Pakistani Army.
As if Hell Fell on ME, a report based on interviews with nearly 300 people, says millions live in a, human rights free zone, where militants torture and kill women aid workers and men without beards. Pakistani soldiers have also committed serious violations, including indiscriminate artillery fire and extrajudicial executions, as the army swept across the tribal belt over the past year, the report said.
FATA is a buffer between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan termed it its geography but till this very day since its creation in 1947, she has done no good to this part of the world.
Political freedom has been closed for the people of this area. Political parties act has not been yet extended to FATA. On Aug. 14, 2009 incumbent President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari announced abolition of FCR and extension of Political Parties Act but soon retreated back for the known reasons pressurized by military establishment not to dare intervene into the affairs of FATA.
As for as we know, there are reasons for pushing FATA into hell, the foremost is that area in question is still not having any constitutional status as to whose part is it? The second is that Pakistani establishment has been in its control to use it against Afghanistan and to take into hands who rules the Kabul. People at helm of affairs in Islamabad have no interest in those living in FATA (Native People of FATA) rather they have their own interest in FATA. We see that FATA has been used for the terrorism for the last nearly 30 years. Religious extremism was promoted by the establishment. Seminaries were constructed and people were encouraged to participate. Politics was termed as a forbidden flower for the people of FATA. They were told that they were different from those living both sides of them. But actually people who at their west and east are of the same ethnicity, Pashtun. They were also told that they were more brave and courageous than others and they had a unique culture. Many a times they were presented as the soldiers having no formal salary out of the national kitty which is supposed to be filled by the alms getting on the very name of tribal people. Actually people of FATA have never been antagonistic to any country or people. They have always remained as peaceful and secular people. In Tirah valley of Khyber Agency so many people are living who are Sikh, by religion. More than 30 thousands Christians have been also residing in FATA but there has never been an incident of killing, abducting or abusing each other. They have all rights what a tribesman and woman have except some what the FCR has taken from them. This is an excellent example of tolerance and secularism. People in Tirah go to the funeral prayers of their sikh brethren and have a good relation ship and no one counts him or her as alien. They have never scorned at them for being different from what they practice. Now we have to come to the facts as to what are the reasons that turned the situations sour. Due to an area like a black hole having no know how about politics and political parties’ presence the religious extremism was promoted and encouraged by the state sponsored agencies for the reasons already mentioned above. Political Agent was imposed on them to decide about their future. Militants from across the world and Punjab were invited by establishment to FATA and a farce like situations was developed in which several actors have been performing their respective acts. Militants were handed over the guns and weapons while on other players started getting fund from international community to apparently wipe out terrorists. In this whole drama the marginalized people of FATA has no role. They and their land are just used for the stage and getting money. Pakistani establishment is a fund starved one and would be using all means and tactics to get the dollars to fill the pockets and have an occasion to loot and plunder with both hands and the recent report of Transparency International also supported our view.
The report of Amnesty International should open the eyes of international community giving fund to the cheaters and robbers on the heads of tribal and FATA. People are hostage and they have been terrorized to the extent that no one in FATA could dare to discuss this issue and go to the bottom of the awful tale of the FATA residents. Most of the tribal have left for comparatively safer places to take shelter. Those who are still there are at the mercy of terrorists and military alike. More than 50000 innocent tribesmen and women were sacrificed for the sin they had not committed. About 3500 pro peace political people, tribal Malakan and influential were ruthlessly beheaded and assassinated Fund is coming and drowned the drain. Neither terrorism was wiped out nor did miseries of people come to an end.
Now it is the responsibility of the Pakistan government to do something for the betterment of the people in FATA because it has been getting the fund on its name but no one knows where it goes.

(The writer is a social and political worker and currently is Chairman Tribal NGOs Consortium, FATA and can be reached at email tncfata@gmail.com, www.tncfata.blogspot.com , + 92-3015963337)