“Like the people of Bengal [erstwhile East Pakistan], the people of K-P can also demand a separate state if the government doesn’t pay attention to their needs,” Senator Khattak said on Tuesday while speaking on the floor of the upper house of parliament. He lamented that the current political turmoil was leading the federal and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governments to ignore the plight of the internally displaced people (IDPs).
Khattak requested the PML-N government to address the grievances of the IDPs as the situation in Mirali and Miramshah, two main towns of North Waziristan, is no different from the massacre in Gaza. He said Pakistan’s initial policy of discriminating between good and bad Taliban was problematic and the authorities have still not adopted a serious approach to cracking down on militant outfits.
He said China has gradually become more concerned about our anti-terror policy and could create problems if it decides to take action against Pakistan. “If our relations with China also fall apart, we will find ourselves in a quandary,” he added.
Furthermore, Khattak criticised the government for invoking Article 245 as it became unnecessary after the Pakistan Protection Act was enforced.
Earlier speaking on the political turmoil, PPP Senator Rehman Malik offered that former president Asif Zardari could assist the government in handling the current political situation. “He can resolve the issue in the same way as he did during his party’s five-year rule,” Malik said.
He claimed that the government should only allow the PTI chief to hold the Azadi march if it is conducted peacefully. “There should be a dialogue among all the parties involved and a give-and-take formula should be adopted,” he added.
Before the Senate session was adjourned until August 18, the lawmakers also deliberated the motion tabled by PPP Senator Raza Rabbani against the government’s decision to invoke Article 245 in Islamabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 13th,2014.
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All ANP leaders are traitors, the party’s founding fathers rejected partition One should remember here we show some gratitude toward pathans also they also fought for our freedom from Britishers. How we can forget sepoy mutiny in meerut in 1857. .
So the truth about who all the operation is targeting has started to come out. Some people just never learn from their mistakes.
All ANP leaders are traitors, the party's founding fathers rejected partition and the idea of Pakistan, for all we know ANP is still maintaining ties with their friends in New Delhi as they worried would be halted by the creation of Pakistan. They even send their kids to study at places like JNU in Delhi.
We are sick and tired of these vision less politicians trying to play ethnic card.
Look at what PTI is doing in kpk, that's what you should have done but did not
We are Pakistanis and will no longer be manipulated by nap, mqm etc
PTI is too busy creating Naya Pakistan, I mean Naya Punjab. They have forgotten the plight of people where they were suppose to rule better.