Peoples Party Fata chapter held a crucial meeting at the residence of Malik Waris Khan Afridi under the president ship of Haji Muhammad Khan, senior vice president PPP FATA.The tribal leadership of Peoples Party from all tribal areas attended the meeting. The meeting unanimously condemned the ongoing military operation in FATA and strongly demanded from the Federal Government led by their party to halt the operation and stop shedding any more blood of the innocent tribal people. Qazi Fazlullah Shinwari a spokesman of PPP Fata told the meeting urged the government to hold talks with the tribal leadership of Taliban to bring an end to the ongoing blood shed in tribal areas. The peoples Party Fata is deadly opposite to the use of force in tribal areas, which will surely increase the sympathies of the tribal oppressed people with the insurgents fighting against the army, added PPP’s Fata spokesman. The Peoples Party FATA chapter will hold protest demonstration in front of parliament House and the governor House if the military operation was kept on, told Fazlullah.He said that PPP Fata leadership decided in the meeting to mount pressure on the central leadership of PPP to appoint Malik Waris Khan as Governor of NWFP and the MNA Chattan as minister in cabinet. The PPP Fata has condemned their party leadership for taking two ministers from Khyber Agency and the one from Dara Adam Khel.The military operation is not in the best national interests and will push tribal areas into the Stone Age, remarked the PPP spokesman. He said that tribesmen were patriotic people and had sacrificed for Pakistan that is why he said that PPP Fata leadership asked their leadership particularly the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari to forthwith stop the military operation in tribal areas and pull back the army from FATA.
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