If a fifth province is on the books then a movement will be started to “take back Islamabad along with parts of southern Punjab and merge it with K-P,” said Senator Haji Adeel.
The resolution for a Hazara province is tantamount to a conspiracy to split Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) apart, said Awami National Party (ANP) central organising committee chairman Senator Haji Adeel on Saturday.
If a fifth province is on the books then a movement will be started to “take back Islamabad along with parts of southern Punjab and merge it with K-P,” he said at a news conference at Bacha Khan Markaz.
Senator Adeel pointed out the Hazara province was not part of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) manifesto, but the party leadership went ahead and submitted a resolution for the establishment of the province.
The PTI leadership is trying to distract people from the failure of its government’s first 100 days by reawakening the idea of the Hazara province, alleged the ANP leader.
Before establishing a Hazara province, the provincial government needs to establish the Abaseen Division; give Baffa and Oghi the status of tehsils in Manshera; and get the Punjab Assembly to pass a resolution to merge Attock and Mianwali with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, argued the irate senator.
He claimed Margalla, which is a part of Islamabad, should also be absorbed by K-P. If elements in Lahore do not stop conspiring against K-P, ANP will drum up a resolution on the truncated division of the Durand Line which divides Pakistan and Afghanistan, he warned.
Interestingly, a similar resolution for the Hazara province was submitted by ANP MPAs during their government.
“We are ready to forgive the blood of our 900 party workers,” and participate in the all-parties conference, said Adeel while referring to the upcoming moot. He was formally invited by Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Khan over the telephone on Saturday.
Discussing the party’s reorganisation, the senator explained ANP’s intra-party elections will be conducted via secret ballots.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2013.
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"If elements in Lahore do not stop conspiring against K-P, ANP will drum up a resolution on the truncated division of the Durand Line which divides Pakistan and Afghanistan"
Why look for outside elements conspiring against the country when traitors lie within? Btw I am Hindko speaker from Hazara and I fully support our right to have a separate province. We have our own culture and language. ANP should stop its Pakhtun hegemony or else the consequences will be bad. We Hindkowans control Peshawar too. They better watch their steps.
anp should have thought about this when they changed the name of the province. They isolated people of hazara.