PESHAWAR: FC quota

Published July 29, 2003

PESHAWAR, July 28: Tribal elders have demanded that the government should specify a quota for tribesmen in the Frontier Corps on the basis of population.

A press release said that a 14-member delegation of the Khyber Agency called on the Inspector-General of Frontier Corps (FC), Maj-Gen Hamid Khan here on Monday and proposed that the government should enhance quota for tribesmen in the FC. Moreover they demanded representation of Shinwari tribe in FC.

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