By President Asif Ali Zulfiqar Ahmad | Fazal Sher | Naveed Siddiqui
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly, Omar Ayub, on Tuesday tore into the federal government鈥檚 decision to turn the Frontier Constabulary (FC) into a national federal force 鈥 slamming it as a power grab that tramples provincial rights and echoes the strong-arm tactics of past dictators.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he said the restructuring of the FC into a 鈥淔ederal Constabulary鈥 was part of a broader attempt by what he described as the 鈥渋nstalled hybrid regime鈥 to undermine Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Ayub said the conversion would 鈥渂ury the 18th Amendment for good,鈥 referring to the landmark 2010 constitutional reform that devolved significant powers to the provinces.
He likened the move to former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto鈥檚 creation of the Federal Security Force (FSF) in the 1970s, calling it an 鈥渋nstrument of terror鈥 used to suppress political opposition and control provinces.
鈥淭his hybrid regime is launching the renamed F