- PTM requires the removing of undue commerce restrictions.
- Pashteen assures nobody to be pressured to pay extortion cash.
- Afghan govt should enable ladies to obtain schooling: PTM.
PESHAWAR: The Pakhtun Qaumi Jirga on Sunday proposed to represent a “Pashtun Milli Lashkar”, an unarmed power to guard Pashtun communities within the area as an area defence mechanism, The Information reported.
The Lashkar will comprise 3,000 youth from every district and political celebration, the three-day jirga steered amongst a number of proposals at its conclusion.
Manzoor Pashteen, the Pashtun Tahaffuz Motion (PTM) chief, made an announcement on this regard on the closing session. Pashteen additionally steered the creation of a committee whose job could be to oversee the extraction of assets all through the Pashtun belt, which stretches from Quetta to Kohistan and Chitral.
He claimed that the committee’s job could be to guarantee that native assets had been utilised for the benefit of the group by stopping any extraction that didn’t straight profit the Pashtun folks. He additionally spoke in regards to the state of affairs in Afghanistan, urging the federal government led by the Taliban to carry the ban on ladies attending college.
“The Afghan authorities should enable ladies to obtain schooling,” he mentioned, stressing the significance of schooling in empowering future generations.
The jirga additionally addressed the difficulty of extortion with Pashteen assuring attendees that no Pashtun could be pressured to pay extortion cash. “If any particular person is threatened, your complete jirga will stand behind him,” he declared, emphasising collective motion in opposition to coercion.
Pashteen referred to as for the removing of undue commerce restrictions at key border factors, together with Torkham, Nawapass, Chaman, and Angoor Adda. He demanded that Pashtuns be allowed to commerce freely with out pointless obstacles.
The jirga concluded with a dedication to compile and formalise the proposals mentioned, signalling a decisive second within the pursuit of Pashtun rights and autonomy.
Whereas political figures from numerous events had been current, they avoided addressing the jirga as a complete. They engaged with attendees in smaller teams at camps. Amongst them was Jamaat-e-Islami’s Mushtaq Ahmad Khan who addressed the entire occasion. He declared that the jirga would now be the first decision-making physique for Pashtun issues.