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Friday, July 27, 2007

ANP chief says governor is touting Talibanization

ANP chief says governor is touting Talibanization

PESHAWAR (PPI): Alleging the sitting NWFP governor NWFP for touting ‘Talibanization’ as alternative to reform, Provincial Chief of Awami National Party Afrasiab Khattak has said the agreement in North Waziristan was aimed to give a free hand to the militants. The Nationalist leader said that deployment of troops in Fata was basically aimed to deceive the world therefore government substantially withdraws forces from Fata and reconsiders its Afghan policy and ‘so-called’ strategic depth. In an interview with PPI, Afrasiab Khan, the ANP provincial chief said all claims about the peace agreement in North Waziristan were false saying whenever the international pressure increases, the intelligence agencies try to manage the militancy that leads to strains of clashes. Khattak said initially General Musharraf regime used to boost a lot the Reform Package in Fata but after 9/11, when Fata was turned as ‘safe heaven’ for militants, the word ‘reform’ disappeared from government’s dictionary. “In fact, the present governor has been touting Talibanization an alternative to reform,” the provincial chief of ANP stated adding that terming Fata as ‘lawlessness Frontiers’ and ‘No Man’s land’ was a myth and stereotype. “The government wants to hide its dual policy towards Afghanistan behind this myth,” he observed. Strongly advocating withdrawal of troops from Fata, Mr. Khattak said that the trouble did not lie in Fata saying, “ in fact it lies in the policy making quarters of Islamabad. “ government has stronger political, social, economic and social levers to control Fata then it has in settled areas, it can implement its policies without using troops provided it has required well,” he added. Khattak, who was former chief Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), said the present situation had re-enforced Fata’s isolation turning it (Fata) in to black whole, with no access to media and no monitoring of the money being pumped to the area. ANP provincial chief said it was unbelievable that USA as member NATO state have no knowledge “ of the duality of Pakistan’s Afghan policy’.“ Straightly enough General Musharraf has remained their (US) darling, the angry noises as they makes time to time not with standing,” he commented. Khattak said that the matter of concerned was US planes to strike in Fata saying that people of Fata were mot perpetuators rather they were victims. “ People of Fata are suffering in cross fire between Nato on the one side and extremist on the other,” he remarked and said that root cause of instability in Fata as well in the whole Pakhtun belt lies in Islamabad that supposed to the most ‘relied ally of USA’. It, he said was said that Pakhtun dies on both sides of Durand line while love affairs between Islamabad-Washington continues. “Their appear to be duality in USA policies also but it is difficult to understand US motives, since they are working on larger chess board,” Khattak noted.

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