PESHAWAR, Feb 6: Pakshtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achekzai has stressed the need for inking a new constitution addressing the grievance of the smaller nationalities.

Speaking at a big meeting here on Wednesday, Mr Khan said  the creation  of a new social contract, based on equal rights of  the federating  units and smaller nationalities, had become  need  of the time as a permanent military dictatorship had been imposed on the country.

He said:”The change of Gen Pervez Musharraf’s uniform will not bring about any change in the fate of smaller units. Things  have gone astray. Only a new constitution can solve the problem”.

For  making Pakistan a strong and democratic country,  it  had become imperative for the Pashtoons, Sindhis, Balochs and Sraekis to evolve consensus on a new contract, guaranteeing equal  rights to all the nationalities living in the country, he added.

He said the world had become a global village, wherein  people of  different ethnic group could live peacefully, if  they  would learnt to tolerate each other. The hate was not a solution to it, he added.

The  Pashtoons, he said, had been dwelling for the last  3,000 years in this part of the world, whenever they had tried to raise a voice for their rights, rulers had dubbed them as traitors.

Mr Khan said Pakistan could be run through a permanent martial law  as it was against the will of people.

Those politicians  who were involved in heinous crimes had been freed, because they  had joined hands with dictators”, he added.

He  said neither they were anti-Pakistan, as being  dubbed  by the official media, nor opposed to a particular group.”We are not ready to give any political role to armed forces and intelligence outfits in the country”, he added.—Bureau