Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat on Sunday regretted his party’s intense dependence on ex-spymaster General (retd) Faiz Hameed’s policy towards the relocation of Fitna al Khawarij ( Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) within Pakistan.
“Hamari matt mari gai thi kay General Faiz Hammed hamara pasandida banda tha,” Sher Afzal Marwat regretfully said while talking to Samaa’s Absar Alam.
General Faiz Hameed and former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa were involved in the “TTP’s resettlement in Pakistan,” insisted Sher Afzal Marwat.
Days after the United States (US) forces withdrew from Afghanistan, the former Director General (DG) of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), Gen Faiz Hameed, visited Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, on September 4, 2021.
Speaking to the News5 channel, Hameed smilingly said, “Don’t worry, everything will be okay.”
The terrorist group, during the PTI’s federal government, reportedly returned to the northern districts of Buner, Bajaur and Mohmand, and forced local businesses to pay protection money.
PTI allegedly helped the Fitna by relocating them to western Pakistan, and the ex-spymaster was the key player in that development.
On Feb 2, 2023, the founder of PTI, Imran Khan, in an address, defended the resettlement of the terrorists in Pakistan from Afghanistan, noting, “The PTI government had two options: either kill all of them or reach an agreement with them and allow them to settle in the province. These returning fighters had many issues that needed to be resolved for peace in the province.”
“When the Afghan war ended, some 30,000 to 40,000 Pakistani tribal fighters wanted to come back,” Khan said and clarified that all stakeholders were on board regarding the resettlement of terrorists in Pakistan.
When asked about PTI’s lack of effort in protesting against the deteriorated law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sher Afzal Marwat claimed: “It is the duty of security institutions” to restore law and order rather than political parties.
Meanwhile, commenting on the ongoing teachers’ protest in the KP province, Marwat claimed that teachers can protest as long as they want, and it is their “right” to protest.
Teachers have been protesting at Jinnah Park Peshawar against the provincial government for more than five days for not upgrading their pay scale from BPS 12 to BPS 14.
Moreover, teachers are demanding permanent posts for those teachers who were hired in 2022 by the provincial government on a contract basis.