QUETTA, Dec 03 (TNS): Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Meh\u00admood Khan Achakzai has said that his party will continue its peaceful struggle for protection of people\u2019s constitutional and dem\u00ad\u00ad\u00adocratic rights.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a public meeting held here on Sunday to commemorate the 45th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai, he said: \u201cThis is our country and our loyalty is to a federal and democratic Pakistan where equal rights of every nationality, ethnicity and minority are guaranteed by the constitution which the state should hold sacrosanct and supreme.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senior PkMAP leaders Ayaz Khan Jogezai, Abdur Rauf Lala, Senator Usman Kakar, Obaibullah Babit, Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal and Nasrullah Zerey also spoke on the occasion.<\/p>\n
They paid tribute to the late Samad Khan Achakzai and underlined the need to follow in his footsteps and political and ideological philosophy.<\/p>\n
Mr Achakzai said he believed in non-violence and peaceful struggle. He said Pakistan needed to be a genuinely democratic federation where people enjoyed constitutional guarantee of their fundamental, political, economic and cultural rights. He said the establishment had no right to interfere in politics.<\/p>\n
The PkMAP chief called for convening a multi-party conference to take stock of the political and economic situation.<\/p>\n
He expressed concern over the ongoing violence and alleged violation of rights, particularly in the Pakhtun belt.<\/p>\n
\u201cPakhtuns are not terrorists. We should erase such stereotypes and concocted images,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cPakhtuns love their land\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said in order to establish peace in Afghanistan, its sovereignty should be respected by all the powers involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cConducive environment needed to be created to enable the Afghans to bring peace to their country,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n
Senator Usman Kakar criticised the government for its lack of democratic credentials and inefficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
QUETTA, Dec 03 (TNS): Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Meh\u00admood Khan Achakzai has said that his party will continue its peaceful struggle for protection of people\u2019s constitutional and dem\u00ad\u00ad\u00adocratic rights. Speaking at a public meeting held here on Sunday to commemorate the 45th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai, he said: \u201cThis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80531,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80529\/revisions\/80531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}