QUETTA: Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai has expelled secretary general Mukhtar Khan Yousafzai and many other senior central and provincial office-bearers from the party for violating its constitution and using powers which they were not authorised to do.

It was second such move by the PkMAP chairman during the last one month as he had earlier expelled party’s central information secretary Raza Mohammad Raza and Obsidullah Babit for allegedly establishing their own group or joining some other party.

Mr Achakzai said in a statement issued here on Sunday that other office-bearers, including provincial president Khursheed Ali Khan, senior vice president Haider Khan Momand, provincial deputy secretary Umar Ali Yousafzai and deputy secretaries Ashraf Hoti and Ahmed Shah Khan were also expelled from the party.

“They have nothing to do with the PkMAP from November 19, 2022,” the statement added.

Several senior central and provincial office-bearers also shown the door

Mr Achakzai alleged that these officer-bearers were involved in creating misunderstandings among party members and supporters in different districts and working to even establish their separate party. They were continuously working against the party’s interest and its constitution, he said, adding that the senior members confirmed about their anti-party activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He said the expelled secretary general was also not implementing the decisions taken at the party’s high-level forums such as national congress and national jirga. He also sabotaged the efforts for re-organising the students’ wing of the party, Mr Achakzai said.

He said that despite knowing that the central executive committee had been dissolved at the national congress, Mukhtar Yousafzai called a meeting of the committee through Facebook, while it had already been decided that social media would not be used for party affairs.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2022