Summary There are around 800 platoons out of which 36 are deployed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has demanded the federation to send back Frontier Corps (FC) for security, Dunya News reported Thursday.
Parliamentary Secretary Shaukat Yousafzai said that terror attacks could be avoided across the country by deploying FC on borders of tribal areas.
Frontier Corps was formed in 1915 with a purpose to bar entrance of extremists in localities adjoining tribal areas. The corps has been offering services for a long time after Indo-Pak separation in areas near Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
There are around 800 platoons out of which 36 are deployed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The rest of the platoons have been deployed in different areas including Islamabad, Karachi and Balochistan.
The provincial government had earlier demanded the federation of FC’s return after Army Public School (APS) attack in December 2014 and now after Bacha Khan University attack in Charsadda on January 20.
Total number of personnel that FC has is 32,000 however, only 1,400 have been given to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police.
Qaumi Watan Party’s (QWP) chairman Aftab Sherpao has said that FC’s job is not to guard embassies. He said that prior to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) government, Awami National Party (ANP) had also demanded the federation to deploy FC in the province.
