MINGORA, Oct 13: The former federal minister and chief of the Pukhtunkhwa Qaumi Party (PQP), Mohammad Afzal Khan Lala, has said the Durand Line is an administrative adjustment made during the British period and it has no importance in the current international politics.

Talking to Dawn here, the PQP president said that the rulers had always tried to take a cover of religion and divide Pukhtuns on both sides of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He predicted that a change in the region was expected soon, but the Pukhtuns should get closer and forge unity for a bright future.

He said the US had failed to rule the Afghans by using force against them. All the Afghans should not be branded as Taliban, he said and added that the Pukhtuns as a whole were stanch Muslims, but it did not mean that they were Taliban.

He said that Pakistan came into being on basis of an ideology and it was duty of both Pakistan and India to have kept cordial relations for being neighbours. He said that the US had its own interests in the region and trying to get control of the natural resources of the central Asians states.

He said that in the past the rulers always made mistakes and used the name of religion for their survival, otherwise the religious parties had even opposed creation of Pakistan.