Bajaur Siyasi Ittehad backs Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement

KHAR: Bajaur Siyasi Ittehad has announced support to the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement’s peaceful struggle for protection of Pakhtuns across the country.

Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, Muhammad Badshah, uncle of Ahmad Shah, who was killed in Karachi, said that educational institutions across the country should ensure peaceful atmosphere for the Pakhtun students.

He said that lack of education opportunities in Fata was forcing tribal students to move to other parts of the country for getting higher education.He lamented that tribal students were not safe in other parts of the country.

Speaking on the occasion, the Bajaur Siyasi Ittehad leaders Aurangzeb Inqilabi, Maulana Waheed Gul, Gul Karim Dr Khalil and others announced support to the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement that was initiated by Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen after the extrajudicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in Karachi.

They also condemned the blocking of more than 6,000 computerised national identity cards of the Bajaur tribespeople.The speakers said that on the one hand tribespeople were suffering due to the numerous checkposts in tribal region while on the other hand government had blocked their identity cards.

The tribal leaders said that the entire Bajaur Agency had no proper hospital that could provide health services to the residents who were left with no option but to travel to Peshawar for treatment.