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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) unanimously approved the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill increasing the number of seats from the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in the National and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assemblies.

Under the bill, the number of NA seats from former FATA will be increased to 12 from six. In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, seats will be increased to 24 from 16.

Under the bill, the number of former FATA’s NA seats will rise from six to 12. Seats of KPK assembly will be increased from 16 to 24.

Prime Minister Imran Khan’

While addressing the Lower House, Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his appreciation over the consensus between all parties on recommendations for the bill.

“I want to tell all the provinces, regarding the 3 percent allocation of the NFC Award, that I know they have some fears. The economic situation is bad, and their funds are not at the level that they should be.”

“But I think this is necessary. All of Pakistan will have to support it, the way their [Fata residents’] homes and jobs have been destroyed,” he said.

“A big accident, the separation of East Pakistan, led to a sense of deprivation among the people,” he said. “All of Pakistan should learn a lesson from that. No one should feel that Pakistan does not own them, that they do not have a stake in Pakistan,” the prime minister asserted.

“This sense of deprivation is dangerous as it can be exploited,” he cautioned. “Development should always be inclusive,” he stated.

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