Pakistan

ANP celebrates renaming of NWFP

Express April 15, 2010

KARACHI: In Peshawar, Pukhtun Students Federation (PSF) celebrated the approval of renaming the NWFP to Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa in the Senate.

After the approval of the 18th amendment in the Senate, a wave of celebrations was felt across ANP workers as the Pakhtun Students Federation took to the streets in merriment at the Bacha Khan Centre, Peshawar. A huge contingent of PSF workers also joined in the celebrations while ANP workers resorted to aerial firing and distribution of sweets. The provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain ordered the firing to be stopped.

Meanwhile, a petition has been filed in the Sindh High Court against the renaming of NWFP as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Advocate Suhail Ahmad stated in his petition that the name of Khyber Pakhtunkah will pave the way for Pakhtunistan. The petitioner claimed the renaming will lead to resentment in the Hazara division. The petition has been accepted for trial.

COMMENTS (13)

nizam ud din | 13 years ago | Reply well pakhtunkhwa name is a great name for our province and we must need to celeberate on this new name because we have acquired this name after such along stuggle and time by the great hardships of our great pakhtun leaders and by this name we have parish the name of the english mens from our province so i would say pakhtunkhwa zindabad.

Imran | 13 years ago | Reply There is no harm in changing the name and like ppl said hazara give us this and that then y these punjabi and sindhi is using the electricity it should b given to hazara only y Sui gas is used by the whole paki land bt nt given to baloch ppl then Karachi should b a separate province as demend by mohajirs pukhtoonakhwa is the name so it is jst leave it pukhtoonkhwa

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Mr Shah | 13 years ago | Reply pakhtun khuwa is identity but it should not be on the cost of diminishing other ethinic group. ANP basically racial and narrow minded, and it installed nothing but hatred in the mind of people. time will show when with the blessing of ANP every pathan will find himself in regular psychological war with other pakistanies. ANP is playing very negative role. all pathan belt is burninig with terrorism and with poverty, but ANP concern is only to change the name and nothing. ANP just increased the number of enemies for pathans. remember name doesn't maater, what matters is the socioeconomic condition. shame on ANP, the traitors

Mussarat Ahmedzeb Swat | 13 years ago | Reply Pathans never need identities of names to feel pathan. We are who we are PROUD PAKISTANIS and name changes are irrelevent.pukhtunkwa or Pukhtunghwa?

Guljan | 13 years ago | Reply You are very right! Safar Shah..

Safar Shah | 14 years ago | Reply Innocent people who were protesting were target killed by ANP Pakhtoon Police. The police was brought into Hazara from Charsadda, Swabi and Peshawar. While before CM Hoti had said Hazara had a right to protest, but then section 144 was imposed and then outside police was brought in to shoot and kill the peaceful protesters. The name Pakhtoonkhawa is a RACIST name. The name only acknowledges 1 ethnicity in the province. Sindh and Punjab are not ethnic names.

arshad n | 14 years ago | Reply can any one explain that what would be the source of income of so called Khaiber PK with hazara? ` hazara is feeding whole NWFP

Guljan | 14 years ago | Reply Innocent people are killed by the order of ANP's highups through Pukhtoon Police,(Bare Fact..See & Listen Media's Footage) so sad... it is not the moment to enjoy. Hazara feeds you all people: TarbelaDam,Khanpur,Dam,HattarIndustries ,Galliat'sTimber,Tobacco,Tea,Fruits,Vegitables,Best Professional & Non-Professional Education,Jobs,Residence..and much more and Pukhtoons Area gives just Drugs,Popy's production,Ammunition & Terrorists...Think about it, Its all fact.

Shah | 14 years ago | Reply You like it or not its Pakhtunkhwa now. Those who got killed, if they were innocent then they should not be there looting some other poor-innocent people's property. They came out not to oppose the name but to gain something in a violent and forceful way. They came to wage a war and there are casualties in every war.

Tahir | 14 years ago | Reply Well,I can't understand wats wrong with Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and why the Hazara wals are so furious? You cant allow any small faction to have its own province.They will have to live under this name.

Faizullah Jan | 14 years ago | Reply If the people of Pakhtunkhwa are rejoicing over the renaming, let them be. They know who cares about their problems. The whole country is beset with problems, the renaming gave the people of Pakhtunkhwa a moment to enjoy. Who killed the innocent people and for what purpose? Ask the Chaudhries of Gujrat. Pakhtunkhwa zindabad!

Maliha Hasan | 14 years ago | Reply exactly Guljan. They can call the province 'spongebob square pants' for all I care. Once again the issues that need to be addressed urgently for our brothers & sisters in the province have been sidelined; Education, equality, healthcare, investment in infrastructure and rising unemployment.

Guljan | 14 years ago | Reply Celebrations ??? over the bodies of innocent people! Bravo...ANP

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