PESHAWAR: Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad (PJI) convener Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao said on Saturday that no effort would be spared to help redress Pakhtuns’ problems.

According to a statement issued here, he was talking to mediapersons and columnists at Watan Kor in an effort to seek input from the journalists community to expand the nine-point agenda introduced by the recently-formed alliance of Pakhtun political parties.

Other leaders of the alliance, including Mukhtar Bacha, Afzal Shah Khamosh, Shahab Khattak and Ajmal Afridi were also present on the occasion.

Sikandar Sherpao said Pakhtuns had been faced with bloodshed for last 40 years and there was a dire need to make joint efforts to address the challenges they were facing.

Shedding light on the aims of the newly-formed alliance, he said they had realised that it was not possible for a single political party to strive for the rights of Pakhtuns so the Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad was formed. He said the alliance would also approach other Pakhtun nationalist political parties in a bid to seek their support to join the struggle for uplift of Pakhtuns.

Mr Sherpao said the main objective behind the formation of the alliance was to help the Pakhtuns get their due rights.

He said representatives of the alliance would meet the Awami National Party leaders at the Bacha Khan Markaz in Peshawar on March 26 to invite them to join the alliance.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2019