Achakzai be tried for treason, says Pervaiz

LAHORE

Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday came hard on Mehmood Khan Achakzai, a government ally for showing disloyalty to Pakistan. 

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Pervaiz Elahi said that ally of government, Mehmood Khan Achakzai had violated the Constitution and oath in the National Assembly by talking against security and solidarity of Pakistan. 

Showing copies of the oath of Mehmood Khan Achakzai as MNA and his brother Muhammad Khan Achakzai as Balochistan Governor, Ch Pervaiz Elahi said it was clearly written in the oath ‘I will bear true faith and allegiance Pakistan and always work for security, solidarity and prosperity of Pakistan' but Achakzai's statement that Khyber Pukhtunkhwa belongs to Afghanistan was tantamount to breaking of Pakistan, although his two brothers Majeed Khan Achakzai and Hameed Khan Achakzai are both MPAs, one brother-in-law is MNA and other Hassan Manzoor is DIG Motorways. 

He stated that action against him under Article 6 was essential because this was a matter of security and safeguarding of Pakistan and all patriotic parties and persons, including the opposition should take action in this regard. 

Pervaiz Elahi said that Pakistan had played the greatest role in getting Afghanistan evacuated from Russian occupation during Ziaul Haq regime, played host like brothers to three million Afghan refugees for 37 years. He said statement of Achakzai was treason with blood of Pakistani army jawans and the people who laid down their lives for liberation of Afghanistan, he had displayed hostility towards Pakistan by not condemning attack on the Ziarat residence of the Quaid-e-Azam and criticising Pakistan Army and Pakistan over Pathankot attack whereas Mehmood Achakzai, his family and all of us Pakistanis are today what we are because of Pakistan, this is his and our entity. 

He said that Pak-Afghan international border was recognised by the entire world and the Supreme Court verdict was also there, UNO also had declared Afghans who had migrated to Pakistan after Russian occupation as refugees because Durand Line was the international border, NATO containers are checked on the border. 

He said Durand Line was the international border since 1893, whole world had never termed it controversial, Pak-Afghan agreements also endorsed it. He said why Mehmood Achakzai was forgetting that after Almighty Allah, Afghanistan had been saved because of Pakistan; otherwise, it had been occupied by Russia. 

Pervaiz Elahi also said that poor pensioners are being pushed around outside the banks ahead of Eid in Pakistan whereas the rulers are doing shopping at the costliest stores in London. He expressed heartfelt grief over the loss of lives and property due to floods in Chitral and conveyed his sympathies for the flood-hit people.