QUETTA, Dec 2: Chief of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (Ponam) Mahmood Khan Achakzai has said the prime objective of his alliance is to unite the divided areas inhabited by the Pakhtuns into one administrative unit called Pakhtunkhwa, Pashtoonistan or Afghania.

Addressing a public meeting at the Sadiq Shaheed Football Stadium on Saturday — held to pay tribute to the founder of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Khan Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai — he said the late leader had made sacrifices to achieve the rights of the Pakhtuns.

He claimed that no compromise would be made vis-à-vis the rights of the Pakhtuns. The federating units must be empowered to control their resources so that the same could be utilised for the benefit of the people.

About the situation in Afghanistan, he alleged that foreign interference was behind the disturbances there. Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Mulla Umar should understand that the withdrawal of international security forces from Afghanistan was linked to acceptance of a system approved by the Loya Jirga.

He thought violent actions by anti-Kabul forces would aggravate the situation there. The MMA made all kinds of noises about the attack on a madressah in Bajaur, but Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Liaquat Baloch did not attend the National Assembly debate on the incident, he pointed out.