QUETTA: The Pashtoon Qaumi Tehrik has called for creation of a ‘southern Pashtoonkhwa’ province comprising areas from Sibi to Zhob.

Addressing a gathering of PQT activists at the Meezan chowk here on Tuesday, the party’s leader, Rafiq Pashtoon, said it was unjustified to give the top posts of chief minister and governor of Balochistan to Balochs and demanded that till the creation of the new province one of the posts should be given to a Pashtoon.

He criticised former military leader Yahya Khan for merging Pashtoon areas from Sibi to Zhob into Balochistan and turning a majority into minority.

He said the merger had created numerous problems for the local people.

Rafiq Pashtoon said the main objective of his party was to struggle for the ‘southern Pashtoonkhwa’ province.

He said there were political movements in Punjab, NWFP and Sindh for Sarieki, Pothwar and Mohajir provinces and there was no harm if the PQT demanded that Balochistan be divided for the creation of a Pashtoon province.