Tag: Achakzai

  • Achakzai fears Khan may be treated like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

    Achakzai fears Khan may be treated like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

    Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai, while addressing a public meeting in Qila Saifullah, Balochistan, warned on Monday that a dark chapter of history could repeat itself, fearing Imran Khan could be treated the same way Zulifqar Ali Bhutto was.

    On April 4, 1979, the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, whose government had been illegally removed by the dictator Zia ul Haq, was hanged in the Central Jail Rawalpindi.

    Former Prime Minister Bhutto was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court in 1978 in an alleged politically motivated murder case, while the Supreme Court later upheld the original sentence.

    Mary Anne Weaver, a foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, narrated the last moments of Bhutto in 1993, writing, “At 1:45 A.M. on April 4, 1979, four wardens entered the prison cell of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a waifishly thin man, nearly wasted away by malaria, dysentery, and hunger strikes. Two of them lifted him by the arms and two by the feet, and he was carried out.”

    Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto wrote in his last testimony, which was later compiled into a book ‘If I Am Assassinated’, that he was confined in a “in this narrow, dark, sinking death cell for 22 or 23 hours every day.”

    Founder Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has been imprisoned for over a year in numerous cases ranging from allegations of corruption and violence against state institutions.

    Achakzai alleged that the PTI workers have faced state repression while protesting for their leader’s release, while emphasising that they won’t let history repeat itself.

    The PkMAP chief demanded that Khan and his party workers should be released from jail, warning that failure to do so could push the country towards civil unrest.

  • Sardar Akhtar Mengal resigns from National Assembly

    Sardar Akhtar Mengal resigns from National Assembly

    Chief of Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) Sardar Akhtar Mengal has announced that he is resigning from the National Assembly (NA).

    Talking to media outside parliament alongside Chairman Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Mengal said, “I am announcing my resignation in this press conference, and I haven’t told anyone yet.”

    The head of BNP-M remarked that he will return to his constituency and tell the Baloch people, “If I was unable to do anything for your people, I didn’t sit along with those who were doing nothing for Balochistan.”

    “I’m disappointed by the system. The state is not ready to listen to Balochistan’s grievances, and I have lost confidence in the state, the President, and the Prime Minister.”

    “Even if you want to encounter or kill me outside Parliament, go ahead, but at least listen. We have no one, and no one listens to us,” he concluded.

  • One lawmaker opposed the resolution on Kashmir

    One lawmaker opposed the resolution on Kashmir

    The Youm-I-Istehsaal-i-Kashmir Day Resolution, presented by Safron and Kashmir Affairs minister Amir Maqam in the national assembly, was unanimously supported, demonstrating strong unity in the cause of Kashmir except for one lawmaker, Chief of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) Mahmood Khan Achakzai.

    The Member National Assembly opposed the resolution, arguing that the draft should be amended before being passed by parliament.

    In a hard-hitting speech, he said, ‘‘We should ask the Kashmiris which country they want to join’’.

    The resolution demanded India release political prisoners, stop the ongoing violation of human rights, provide humanitarian aid, and sincerely implement the relevant resolution of the United Security Council so that Kashmiri people can determine their future through the democratic process of a fair and partial plebiscite under the define guidance of the United Nations.

    In response, after being called ‘havaldar’ by the achakzai, the speaker elaborated that he was proud of being called a havaldar as he is the country’s frontline soldier.

  • Want PTI to apologise? Give us an independent May 9 commission and we will: Omar Ayub

    Want PTI to apologise? Give us an independent May 9 commission and we will: Omar Ayub

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan, while talking to Independent Urdu, said that May 9 was a conspiracy against PTI. In response to a question regarding apologising to the military, the PTI leader said, “Yes, we will apologise if an independent commission is made.”

    On the other hand, Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Aain (TTA) alliance leaders demanded a judicial investigation into the May 9 violent protests last year.

    TTA chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, while speaking at the event in Islamabad, warned that his party workers will protest on the streets across the country if martial law was imposed in the country, and the constitution was destabilised.

    Similarly, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said sarcastically while addressing the same event that DG ISPR, in his recent press release, gave ‘facts like Form 47’.