QUETTA, Sept 2: The establishment of a separate Khojak Pukhtun province, comprising Pukhtun districts of Balochistan, would foil President Hamid Karzai’s plan to annex ‘our areas in Afghanistan’, according to former federal minister and chairman of Pukhtun Province Movement Haji Mir Tareen.

He was addressing a press conference at the press club here on Sunday.

He urged the government to act wisely and accept the constitutional and political demands of the people in order to steer the nation out of crisis.

Mr Tareen claimed that the British Balochistan comprised majority districts of Pukhtuns and in 1947 they had voluntarily opted to join the new Islamic state of Pakistan. He said that a separate Khojak province would be in favour of the Pakistan ideology.

He urged the Kabul government to stop supporting movements for independent states of Pukhtunistan and Balochistan otherwise Pukhtuns would be justified to demand the annexation of Kandahar province with Khojak province.—Correspondent