KABNUL – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meddling in internal affairs ofPakistan and instigating the Pashtun March is highly regretted insidePakistan
The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says he fully supports thePashtun Long March in Pakistan as he expressed hopes that the movement willhelp in uprooting the terrorism from the region.
“I fully support the historical Pashtun Long March in Pakistan. The mainpurpose of which is to mobilize citizens against fundamentalism andterrorism in the region,” President Ghani said in a Twitter post.
President Ghani further added that the historical importance of this marchtraces back to the great proponent of non-violence, Bacha Khan, whosephilosophy was based on the non-violent ideology.
“Just like the Lawyers’ Community in Pakistan succeeded in their movement,I hope Pashtun Long March would also succeed in uprooting and eradicatingterrorism from their region,” he added.
He said “After the tragedies of Kabul, I had remarked that Afghans and thepeople of this region should align against terrorism. I consider thePashtun Long March a response to those remarks and a wake-up call againstfundamentalism.”
This comes thousands of Pashtuns in Pakistan launched protests in reactionto the killing of a Pashtun Model Naqeebullah Mehsud who was killed by thepolice forces in Karachi on 13th January.
The police forces in Karachi had accused Mehsud was having links with theTaliban group however his family reject the allegations.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued the arrestwarrant of a police officer Anwar Rao in connection to the murder case butreports indicate that no breakthrough has been made in his arrest so far.