April 28, 2008	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 21, 1429

QUETTA, April 27: Pakthunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai has condemned the Taliban attack on an Afghan army parade in Kabul and said that such activities would endanger peace in the region.

He was addressing a public meeting at the Liaquat Bagh on the eighth anniversary of the April 27, 2000, military operation in the Pashtoonabad locality in which a number of people were killed.

Mr Achakzai said instability in Afghanistan was not in the interest of countries in the region, Pakistan, China, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

He also said Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours should desist from interfering in the war-torn country which had been bleeding for three decades.

He asked Mulla Omar and other Taliban leaders to have mercy on Afghans and their children and to let them resolve all issues peacefully in accordance with their traditions.

Referring to the domestic situation, he appealed to PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to restore the pre-emergency judiciary to steer the nation out of the judicial crisis.

He said that dithering over the issue of reinstatement of judges would weaken the democratic forces and strengthen the dictatorship.