BANNU: Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai has said that the Pashtun Qaumi Jirga has been called to raise voice for their rights.
Achakzai added that the Pashtun land has all the resources but they are deprived of their right to use it. “We want our right on these blessings through international law,” Achakzai said during his address to the Jirga.
Achakzai was addressing Loya Jirga of Pashtun nationalist political parties – the Awami National Party, Qaumi Watan Party, National Democratic Movement and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement. Representatives of literary organisations also participated in the jirga at Mera Khel Ground and presented their suggestions for the development of Pashtun nation.
Achakzai lamented that for the past 50 years, there has been bloodshed on Pashtun’ land and facing exploitation. “The world has rallied against the Pashtuns and all kinds of small and heavy guns – except the atom bomb- have been used for the genocide of the Pashtuns,” the PkMAP leader lamented.
The PkMAP chief accused the United States and betraying Afghanistan and leaving it helpless to the Taliban.
Achakzai said that the loya jirga has decided that the Pashtuns would not tolerate further exploitation, bomb blasts and targeted killings on Pashtun land. He demanded that the border crossing points – Ghulam Khan, Chaman, Torkham and other – should be opened round the clock for free movement and trade. “Wherever the Pashtuns raised voice for their rights, they were deprived of the rights to life,” the PkMAP chief said. He questioned why only the Pashtun has been under continuous instability and wars.