BAJAUR, May 8: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairman Afrasiyab Khattak has criticized the Frontier Crime Regulation and held it responsible for human rights violations in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas.

Speaking at a seminar on ‘Human Rights in Tribal Areas’, Mr Khattak said that since the creation of the country no ruler had repealed “the draconian laws” in the tribal areas which had multiplied the miseries of the tribal people.

He said that repeal of the 100-year-old Frontier Crime Regulation could alone halt human rights violations of seven million people of tribal areas.

He said that women were particularly being deprived of their rights. “They send only their sons to school leaving their daughters uneducated,” he added.

The seminar demanded of the government to de-mine the Bajaur tribal agency as thousands had either been killed or injured in mine blasts.