PJI concerned over worsening security situation in Afghanistan July 19, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Pakhtun-khwa Jamhoori Ittehad (PJI), an alliance of nationalist parties, on Sunday expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and underscored the need for resolving the hostilities through talks.
A meeting of the Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad was held with its convener Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao. Mukhtiar Bacha of National Party, Afzal Khamosh and Shakil Wahidullah Khan of Mazdoor Kissan Party, Akhunzada Haider Zaman of Awami Workers Party, Ajmal Khan of Ulasi Tehreek and others attended the meeting.
The participants in the meeting said that all the stakeholders should join hands and make concerted efforts for the restoration of peace in Afghanistan.
PJI concerned at worsening security situation in Afghanistan July 19, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Pakhtun-khwa Jamhoori Ittehad (PJI), an alliance of nationalist parties, on Sunday expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and underscored the need for resolving the hostilities through talks.
A meeting of the Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad was held with its convener Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao. Mukhtiar Bacha of National Party, Afzal Khamosh and Shakil Wahidullah Khan of Mazdoor Kissan Party, Akhunzada Haider Zaman of Awami Workers Party, Ajmal Khan of Ulasi Tehreek and others attended the meeting.
The participants in the meeting said that all the stakeholders should join hands and make concerted efforts for the restoration of peace in Afghanistan.
The writer is author of Pakistan: In Between Extremism and Peace.
THE ongoing sociopolitical changes defining transition in most Pakhtun areas raise many questions. Is Talibanisation only a Pakhtun phenomenon? Why were the mujahideen rebranded as Taliban? Did faith or ethnonationalism foster extremism? Did the latter emanate from the hollowness of the internal structure or external policies? Why was the northwest a battlefield for proxies? Why were customs and ‘jihad’ combined for ulterior motives? Why have there been different laws in erstwhile Fata, Pata, the Frontier Regions and KP? What were the consequences of indirect rule in Fata? Why was a colonial recipe favoured there?
Honouring a brave man
Provincial president of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Usman Kakar. File photo
Last week, Senator Usman Kakar was laid to rest after a historic funeral at his hometown Muslim Bagh in Balochistan.
I was among the tens of thousands of people who attended his funeral prayers; it was an experience that left me awed and humbled. In my life as a political worker, I have never seen so many people come out to say goodbye to a beloved leader. Usman Kakar’s funeral was an extraordinary event and, in my opinion, was the perfect testimony of his stature and the love and respect he commanded.
Peshawar
February 22, 2021
NOWSHERA: Writers and poets on Sunday urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to declare Pashto as an official language in offices of government departments and a compulsory subject in schools from class one to Matric level.
The demand was made at a march organised by the Gandhara Pashto Adabi Jirga from Shobra Chowk to Nowshera Press Club. The march was organised in connection with the International Mother Language Day, which is being marked all over the world on February 21.
Faqir Shah Faqir of the Gandhara Pashto Adabi Jirga, provincial president Shakil Waheedullah of Mazdoor Kissan Party, Nawaz Khattak of Malgari Wakilan, Latif Shah Shahid of Malgari Leekwalan led the march and spoke on the occasion.