Politics in Tribal Areas

Pakistan tribal areas are the most backward areas and the government of Pakistan has worked in the last 66 years only for the welfare of the Maliks. Government funds were misused by the political administration in these areas and intentionally the people were kept ignorant about their own rights. Education and health facilities are very few in these areas, even the situation is worst to the limit that even the most backward areas in the settled areas are far better than those in the tribal ares.

Government of Pakistan has divided tribal areas in two different administrative systems, one is Federally administered and the other is provincially administered. People are sandwiched among these two systems and political administration has got unlimited powers without any financial or moral liability. Bureaucrats wanted postings there to earn more money as there is no accountability system in the political administration in the tribal areas.

Presently, tribal areas are the safe heavens of terrorists and practically the nurseries of terrorism. The most unsafe areas in the world, that is only because the government of Pakistan has kept them blind by keeping them away from education, health, and other facilities. In most of the areas, people are living in the stone age time. Women folk is the most deprived as they have almost zero percent access to education and other health facilities. Taliban and other terrorist groups have found it the easy and safe growth in the name of religion while religion has nothing to do with terrorism.

The government of Pakistan is reaping what they sowed in the last 66 years. If Pakistan wants to maintain its writ in its tribal belt that are having rich natural resource, they must give them their basic rights of access to education, health, social and economic justice and equal rights to all citizens. It is very unfortunate that no political party has any agenda for the development of these areas in their manifestos. Not a single party has got any program for these areas. If we want to keep intact the very fabric of Pakistan, we must give them their due rights.

The solution is very simple, Just give them their due rights.

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