Independent Report
QUETTA: The Chairman Pashtunkhaw Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and head of the Tehreek Tahaffuz Aayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), Mehmood Khan Achakzai has categorically stated that we stand for the supremacy of the Constitution and the law; we want constitutional rule in the country.
Mehmood Khan Achakzai asserted that no one has the authority to shake the foundations of the Constitution, yet the present government has uprooted those very foundations.
If a village cannot function without agreed-upon rules and regulations, how can an entire country run without a Constitution?
We have decided that we would stand against oppression anyway.
The Chairman PkMAP was addressing a public gathering in Quetta on Tuesday.
The grand public gathering was organized at the spacious football ground located in the Ayub Sports Complex on Tuesday.
While the main speaker at the public meeting was Mehmood Khan Achakzai, prominent others who participated and addressed the gathering were included the convenor of Pashtoon Qaumi Jirga, Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezia, acting President of Balochistan National Party, Sajid Tareen Advocate, Provincial President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Dawood Shah Kakar, PkMAP’s senior leader, Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal, besides others.
A large number of the PkMAP’s leaders, workers and other people participated in the public meeting. Worth mentioning is that a large number of the participants came from different other areas of the province.
Speaking on the occasion, Mehmood Khan Achakzai said that we want a parliament where genuinely elected representatives of the people sit, a parliament where the Constitution, law and the rights of the people are discussed.
He said that whether anyone stands up against a tyrannical ruler or not, PKMAP would stand firm.
He emphasized that national unity and consensus are needed to steer the country out of crisis.
He also said that PKMAP has decided that the mutual problems of the people would be resolved by bringing the people together.
He said that political courts are formed against those who hold democratic and positive thinking.
Mehmood Khan Achakzai said that the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhaw is the representative of 40 million people, yet he is sitting outside Adiala Jail just to meet the founder of PTI.
He added that threats of imposing Governor’s Rule in KP have already begun.
“Go ahead and impose Governor’s Rule if you dare—then we would establish people’s rule,” Achakzai asserted.
The Chairman PkMAP’s said that where the rule of the Constitution and law prevails, the uniform becomes a symbol of protection, but in our country the uniform has become a symbol of fear. “We are advocates of peace; war is a sign of savage instincts.”
He said that the authority to govern and to distribute resources in the country should be given to the nationalities -Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi, Punjabi, and Seraiki. The powerful and the elite have taken control of the resources, while the poor are even being prevented from earning wages and doing business; warehouses and showrooms are being raided.
He said that why was Benazir Bhutto killed?” We have always resisted every dictator and oppressor and would continue to do so. Those who do not sell out and speak the truth are declared traitors.
He said that our land is confronting numerous issues. This land has been blessed with immense natural resources and wealth, but despite this, the people living there are deprived of desired facilities and even they are deprived of livelihood.
He said that the Pashtoon nation needs unity to secure their due rights.
Referring the grand gathering in the Ayub Stadium, Mehmood Khan Achakzai said that the people have come to participate in the public meeting by their own will and choice.
Other speakers including Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezai, Sajid Tareen Advocate, Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal, Provincial President of PTI and others paid tributes to the late Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai for invaluable services and struggle made for the rights of the oppressed segments of the society.
They said that late Achakzai was the man of principle who did never make compromise on the principles and ideology.
They stressed the need to follow his footsteps to get the due rights of the common men.
In his address, Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezai said that Khan Shaheed and Mahmood Khan Achakzai have always struggled for the Constitution, democracy and the independence of the judiciary.
The country’s foreign policy is not independent and only those parts of the Constitution are kept active that give the state the power to use bullets and batons.
The spokesman Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aayeen-e-Pakistan, Akhunzada Hussain Yusufzai condemned the resolution against Mahmood Khan Achakzai in the National Assembly and the threats of imposing governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said that on Monday, a resolution in support of Mahmood Khan Achakzai will be presented and passed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
He said that the PTI founder has become a symbol of public resistance and the voice of the oppressed and it is on this basis that he has been unjustly imprisoned. “We would not forget this injustice, and we would seek accountability.”
Senior Vice President of BNP Sajid Tareen paying tribute to Khan Shaheed said that workers of parties claiming to stand for democracy and nationalism should question their leaders for supporting the 26th and 27th constitutional amendments.
