FCR: An Inhuman Law

 human rights because every person is responsible for
In present world there are many communities thathis/her wrong act another concept is that in tribal
are passing their lives under inhuman laws in thirdculture if a person commit crime only his family
world countries as well as in developing countries.supports him rather than his whole tribe so as
Pakistan is also a country which in passing throughAnthropological point of view FCR should be amend
the stages of development. The article regards anthat tribal responsibility should be changed to family
inhuman law which is applicable to the tribal people ofresponsibility and government can arrest his other
FATA.family members and not his other tribal.
FATA stands for federally administrative tribal areas.Another point is that if any murder case happened
On the boarder of Afghanistan and Pakistan therenear one’s home that person will be responsible
living Pukhtoon tribes in hilly areas which have lack offor murder. It is clear that each government is
social development. There population is about fiftyresponsible for the safety of all citizens and no citizen
lakes now a day. According to the Constitution ofis responsible for the safety of other citizens so why
Pakistan, article 247, Pakistani law is not applicable toshould a government arrest a person for a not
the tribal built and FCR should be applicable to thesecommitted crime.
areas.According to FCR tribal people have no right of
As we discussed that FCR stands for frontier crimesappeal to any court in the country. They can solve
regulation. Originally it is a British law which had appliedtheir disputes under the authority of political
to control the tribal people during colonial government.administration of Pakistani government. So it is also
It has 64 articles and most of them are against basicagainst human rights because why a person can not
human rights while government of Pakistan says thatgo to court for his/her rights.
these are according to the cultural set up of tribalAnother and last reason for the wrongness of FCR is
peoplethat FATA is under the control of Pakistani
Some main points of FCR are as bellow that isgovernment than why there is different law for
against basic human rights.people of one country.
According to the article 40 of FCR if any tribalWe can suggest that Pakistani government should
commits any crime his whole tribe will be responsibleamend FCR in the context of present culture of tribal
for his wrong act and government can arrest anypeople and universal human rights.
person of his tribe. So it is clear that it is against