BAJAUR, Aug 22: Local leaders of various political parties here have demanded of the government to give Fata people representation in the NWFP Assembly.

In a joint press conference here the other day, Bajaur PPP President Mian Saeedur Rehman, local Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Sahibzada Haroon Rashid and area Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Maulana Mohammad Saddiq stated that the federal government had assured to allocate special seats for Fata in the provincial assembly before the general elections.

They said nomination papers were being filed for the national and provincial assemblies throughout the country, but the tribesmen could not file papers for the provincial assembly elections, which disappointed about seven million population of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata).

The leaders also demanded of the Election Commission to exempt the tribesmen from the graduation condition.

House burnt: Political authorities set fire to the house of an alleged outlaw in Bara, Khyber Agency, on Wednesday.

The accused, Saideq Khan, son Syed Zawadin, resident of Sheenkamar was wanted to the agency administration and the Peshawar police in a number of cases of abduction and car-lifting.

Khan was given three days to surrender but he did not turn up.