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| February 7, 2003 | Friday | Zul Hijjah 5,1423 |
PMAP demands new constitution
PESHAWAR, Feb 6: Pakshtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achekzai has stressed the need for inking a new constitution addressing the grievance of the smaller nationalities.
Speaking at a big meeting here on Wednesday, Mr Khan said the creation of a new social contract, based on equal rights of the federating units and smaller nationalities, had become need of the time as a permanent military dictatorship had been imposed on the country.
He said:”The change of Gen Pervez Musharraf’s uniform will not bring about any change in the fate of smaller units. Things have gone astray. Only a new constitution can solve the problem”.
For making Pakistan a strong and democratic country, it had become imperative for the Pashtoons, Sindhis, Balochs and Sraekis to evolve consensus on a new contract, guaranteeing equal rights to all the nationalities living in the country, he added.
He said the world had become a global village, wherein people of different ethnic group could live peacefully, if they would learnt to tolerate each other. The hate was not a solution to it, he added.
The Pashtoons, he said, had been dwelling for the last 3,000 years in this part of the world, whenever they had tried to raise a voice for their rights, rulers had dubbed them as traitors.
Mr Khan said Pakistan could be run through a permanent martial law as it was against the will of people.
Those politicians who were involved in heinous crimes had been freed, because they had joined hands with dictators”, he added.
He said neither they were anti-Pakistan, as being dubbed by the official media, nor opposed to a particular group.”We are not ready to give any political role to armed forces and intelligence outfits in the country”, he added.—Bureau
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