BAJAUR, Feb 20: The election commission has chalked out a plan to carry out delimitation of constituencies for holding the local government elections in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) during the current year.

The election in the tribal areas would be held for union councils, tehsil councils and agency council.

The assistant election commissioner of Bajaur Agency, Mohammad Shahid Khan, briefing newsmen here on Wednesday said a union council would comprise a sub-tehsil with a population between 10,000 and 15,000 voters.

The union council representatives would vote for the election of Nazimeen and Naib Nazimeen of tehsil council and Nazim and Naib Nazim of agency council, he said.

He said delimitation exercise would be carried under the supervision of political agent and the assistant director of local government and rural development department. They would be assisted in the task by the Political Tehsildars and Political Naib Tehsildars.

The AEC said under the special directives of the chief election  commissioner, the delimitation exercise  would  be completed in ten days.

The final list of the new constituencies would be submitted to the CEC by 28th, he added.

Answering a question, he said there were a total of 226,000 voters in the Bajaur Agency. Of these, 75,000 voters were women and only 40 minority voters, he told newsmen.

He said no decision had been so far taken about giving right of vote to the tribal women in the local councils elections. However, he added that negotiations in this regard were being held with the tribal elders.

DISPUTE SETTLED: Two rival groups belonging to the Katkot area of Mahmond valley amicably settled their 27-year-old property dispute. The settlement was effected by a tribal Jirga after several days of efforts which culminated on Wednesday.