By Iftikhar A. Khan
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ISLAMABAD: The Awami National Party (ANP) on Tuesday raised alarm in the Senate over the government鈥檚 move to transform the Frontier Constabulary (FC) into a 鈥渘ationwide federal force鈥 mandated to operate in all provinces and territories.
Speaking in the House on a point of public importance, ANP chief Aimal Wali Khan said federal forces already have a presence in all the provinces. He said that the Frontier Corps had its deployment in Balochistan while the FC was for the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), to deal with security.
He wondered as to why the decision has been taken to convert FC into a federal force while the deployment of Rangers in Sindh and Punjab, and the Frontier Corps in Balochistan had not been disturbed.
He called the move a 鈥榙irect attack of the federation鈥 on the rights of the people of KP. He demanded