Staff Reporter:
QUETTA: Mahmood Khan Achakzai was elected as Chairman and Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal was elected as secretary general of Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) on Wednesday evening. According to a press release issued by the party, Arshad Khan Swabi Senior Deputy Chairman, Abdur Rauf Lala Deputy Chairman, senior Deputy secretary Attal Khan Achakzai, for central secretaries Nawab Ayaz Khan Jeogzai, Juma Gul, Rasan Safi, Nazir Jan Lala, Malik Shaukat, Talimand khan, Dr. Kalimullah, Fazal Qadir Sherani, Dr. Hamid Khan Achakzai, Musa Bacha, Jabar Khan and Dr Jamil Khan Panizai were elected by the Qomi Jirga (council) as members of the executive council.
Abdul Qahar Wadan for Balochistan, Dr. Mohammad Ali Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, Janan Afghan Punjab, and Saleem Tareen were elected as provincial presidents respectively. Party chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai has taken the oath of office from four provincial executives (cabinet) members.
The three-day 7th national Congress of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party elected national and four provincial Qomi Jargas as an electoral college to elect central, and provincial executives or cabinets and working committees respectively.
More than 10,000 delegates participated in the Congress
The 7th National Congress was held in Quetta from December 19 to 21. More than ten thousand delegates from across the country participated
The Congress deliberated over and discussed the organizational affairs structure and constitution for three days, and also endorsed all decisions made by the party chairman in the interim period between the 6th and 7th Congress.
Addressing the national congress that elected the new office-bearers, Mr. Achakzai urged the Pakhtuns to focus on their children’s education which should also include social and moral aspects to prepare them for facing the current complex political challenges.
He regretted that due to turning their land into a battleground of proxy wars, which stopped the evolutionary cycle that pushed Pakhtun into social, political, and economic stagnation.
Achakzai asks Nawab Jogezai to convene a jirga to end tribal disputes
He further elaborated that therefore Pakhtuns are still entangled in tribal and personal conflicts that are mostly based on trivial issues. Such conflicts devour a thousand lives every year.
Therefore, I call upon the party, particularly Nawab Ayaz Jogezai to constitute a grand reconciliatory Jarga that has representation from every tribe and region for preventing and settling disputes.
