Sikandar Sherpao says PJI to help Pakhtuns to get rights

PESHAWAR: Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad Convener Sikandar Hayat Sherpao said on Saturday that no effort would be spared to serve the Pakhtuns and help address the problems being faced by them.

According to a press release, he was talking to journalists and columnists at the Watan Kor in an effort to seek input from the journalist community to expand the nine-point agenda recently introduced by the alliance.

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

Sikandar Sherpao said the Pakhtun region had been facing bloodshed for the last 40 years and there was a dire need to make joint efforts to address the challenges being faced by the Pakhtuns. 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 the Pakhtuns, therefore, the Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad was formed.

He said the alliance would also approach other Pakhtuns nationalist political parties in a bid to seek their support to join the struggle so that solutions the challenges facing the Pakhtuns could be addressed.

Sikandar Sherpao said the main objective behind the formation of the alliance was to help the Pakhtuns get their due rights and remove the prevailing sense of deprivation among them.

He said the 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 Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad. Meanwhile, the Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad would also contact the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Pakhtun Think-Tank and other Pakhtun nationalist parties, the sources said.

A 15-member committee of the alliance having three members each from Qaumi Watan Party, Mazdoor Kisan Party, Awami Workers Party, National Party Pakhtunkhwa Wahdat and Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek had been assigned the task to approach other parties.