By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Awami National Party provincial president Aimal Wali Khan on Wednesday said that they believe in Bacha Khan none violent mission and they will fight for the Pashtoons’ rights in a legal and political forum.
Aimal Wali was speaking to a public gathering held in Landikotal and said that they would not let the government swallow tribal people’s resources in erstwhile Fata. He rejected the bill passed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly and said that it was the right of tribal people to benefit from the minerals that exist in erstwhile Fata.
Aimal said it was the ANP leaders’ dream to get Pashtoons in Pakistan united. He said we were working on the unity of Pashtoons’ solidarity and hope to make the dream true one day.
He said ANP was happy that they succeeded in the reunification of tribal districts with the rest of Oashtoons in KP that had been intentionally divided in past.
Aimal Wali Khan said that though Pashtoons are geographically united in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, time also demands their mental and thinking unity so that they can achieve real freedom.
The ANP leader said changing the name of the province in 2010 was their prime achievement. He said leaders ruling on the land of Pashtoons were not Pashtoons, but they were imposed to fulfill their personal interests.
ANP leader said the PTI government wants to occupy the minerals in erstwhile Fata, which is the right of tribal people. He said ten million tribals had not yet received a single benefit after Fata was merged into KP province.
“I will struggle even if I am not in the government, but will not let the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government occupy the resources of tribal people”, Aimal Khan.
Condemning the Shaukat Yusufzai statement about tribal people, the ANP leader said that tribals were the proud nationals of Pakistan who always served in high-ranking posts in the government.
He demanded of the government that Khasadars and levies must be inducted into the police. He said they would not let anyone snatch the Khyber district people’s rights from others.
He said after a decades-long struggle, they rooted out the draconian Frontier Crimes Regulations(FCR) from the tribal belt that had suppressed tribal peoples.
He said tribal people had suffered in the war against terrorism, but the current rulers did not bother to take their grievances seriously.
ANP leader said they have decided to knock on the court door against the government and would compel the PTI parliamentarians to withdraw the tribal districts minerals’ ownership bill.
Ex-minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilur thanked Malik Darya Khan and said that his family follow the footprint of Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan. He said Malik Nadar Khan was the right hand of Bacha Khan.
He said Pashtoons fought against British rulers for their freedom, but still, they were not considered full Pakistani citizens.
He said Bacha Khan was against one unit, as he was put in jail for 35 years.
Criticizing the central and provincial governments, Ghulam Ahmad Bilur said that all the parliamentarians are selected and imposed on them. He said that under the leadership of Imran Khan, Pakistan will lose more in the coming months.
Awami National Party leaders Malik Darya Khan, Shah Hussain Shinwari and others also spoke on the occasion. They welcomed the opening of the Kartarpur border with India and urged Imran Khan to he should also open the Afghan border for the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
