KPK

Tribal districts or Palestinian Gaza

There are several types of homicide. Physical carnage, economic carnage and social carnage etc. Unfortunately, Pakistan's Pakhtunkhwa and especially the tribal districts have faced these different types of massacres alternately in the last few decades, but since politics does not shine on it in the way that it does not on the issue of Palestine etc., no political leader or journalist. He does not make them the subject of his politics or journalism.


The political and legal massacre or exploitation of the tribal districts was happening under the FCR black law since the time of the British. Then this state made it a laboratory for Pakistan's wrong policies regarding Afghanistan and for twenty years there was physical massacre here which has now reduced to some extent but still continues in one form or another. In 2018, FATA was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to solve all these massacres, but unfortunately, even after that, not only the tribal districts, but the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is still being massacred in one way or another.


It should have been that after the merger, financial matters would have been entrusted to the province, but it was not included in the priorities of the project that was launched after the end of the Muslim League government. After the merger, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa actually became a new province after increasing its population and area. A change in the formula of distribution of federal revenue was inevitable in the country. The province's share was to increase from about fourteen percent to nineteen and a half percent.


However, the new population was included in it, but instead of bringing its share in the federal income to 19%, Imran Khan's government kept it at the previous 14%. Although at the time of merger, the political leadership of all the parties unanimously decided that in addition to increasing this share to nineteen percent, the tribal districts will be given an additional three percent from the divisible pool for ten years, which was about twenty billion rupees, but the last five Not a single year has this happened over the years even though the Sartaj Aziz Committee, which is the foundation of the 25th Amendment, included this basic point.


Where Imran Khan's project to dominate has sunk the economic raft of the rest of the country, these promises have also been put on the shoestring even though the province and the federation were governed by the same party. When the "kind people" withdrew their hands from the project, it was hoped that the unfinished plans of integration would get a boost, but unfortunately, these promises did not find a place in the government priorities of the PDM. So now the situation of implementation of these promises since the merger is that sixty billion rupees which was received in the form of ongoing expenses (i.e. salaries and petrol etc.) has been frozen at the same amount.


Salaries were increased in the rest of the country, due to the increase in the price of petrol, the rest of the provinces increased their budget accordingly, But in the merged districts of FATA, the salaries are being given on the basis of 2018 and the rate of petrol etc. is also on the basis of the same year. The result is that this year, the province will spend ninety-seven billion rupees from its budget in these areas and the federal government has promised sixty-six billion rupees in this regard, but the economically bankrupt province can give its share and neither the federal government. There's a chance the administration can keep its word.



The story of 100 billion per year from the federal government is even more horrific. Sometimes twenty billion, sometimes twenty-seven, that too in a pittance and in such a way that it could not be used. For example, out of twenty-seven billion of the previous fiscal year, seventeen billion were given on June 26. Ten billion rupees out of this was only for paper in the name of another joke. The last four days of June were Eid-ul-Azha holidays. Now the demand was that all the money should be spent in these annexed districts during the four days of these holidays. Obviously, this was impossible, but under the guise of this, the bureaucracy of the federal government does another shameless act by informing the province on the sixth day of the beginning of the next fiscal year that since you could not spend this money on time, you have to The New Year installment (Baqadar Ashk Bulbul) will not be available until you spend it. That is, no new money for three months, do what has to be done.


At the time of merger, thousands of small and large projects in the erstwhile FATA were doled out and started without provision of resources. When the money was not received, the responsibility fell on the provincial government. The province is also suffering from lack of resources since the time of the previous government. The net profit of electricity which was to be obtained as per AGN Qazi formula, was not obtained. A fixed sum of three billion rupees was being paid to the province every month. This situation continued till December 2021.Even the arrears reached up to one and a half trillion. In the PDM government, a committee was formed under the chairmanship of Ishaq Dar Sahib, who raised his hands on this historical abuse and clearly told that we should talk about it further. Another formula was settled under which WAPDA would pay the province at the rate of one rupee and ten paise per unit. It will be increased by five percent every year. You will think that something has been found. no Please. From January 2022, they also stopped giving three billion months. 5 billion in the last fiscal year and a total of 5 billion so far in this financial year. The irony is that WAPDA collects the province's share from the CPPA but does not pay the province.


He says he will meet his expenses first. If there is anything left, I will give it to you. Therefore, under the Ishaq Dar formula, the arrears due to the center of the province have also reached ninety billion. Not only this, but WAPDA, which buys electricity from its own power plants in the province, is also in default of payment of seven billion. As a result, the province is unable to pay its salaries and pensions and in the absence of resources from above, it has to bear the burden of the merged districts. Late Chief Minister Azam Khan wrote a dozen letters to former Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, present Mr. Anwarul Haq Kakar and Ishaq Dar, in which they repeatedly drew attention to this, but he passed away with this regret in his heart.


Undoubtedly, Imran Khan's government was the main responsible for this cruelty along with the merged districts, but the rest of the political leadership is also fully involved.