Big claim: Achakzai offers to restore peace in three months

Achakzai said, we have decided to save Pakhtuns from a disaster

QUETTA: Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai has claimed that he, together with other Pakhtun nationalist leaders, could restore peace in the country within ‘three months’.

“The government should empower me, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Aftab Ahmed Sherpao and Asfandyar Wali and all Pakhtun leaders to restore peace – and we will do that within three months,” Achakzai told a public meeting at the Sadiq Shaheed Football Ground Monday afternoon. The meeting was organised to commemorate the Chehlum of Quetta massacre victims.

“We will not only restore peace but will also resolve all outstanding issues with Afghanistan,” he added. “However, we could do that only if interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs is stopped.”

The PkMAP chief claimed that more than 100,000 Pakhtuns have been killed, while more than 1,200 tribal elders and political leaders have been targeted by terrorists in last 40 years. “We have decided to save Pakhtuns from a disaster,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20^th, 2016.