Peshawar:Sunday,Feb.24,2008
Election 2008,was held in Pakistan in which PPPP,PML(N) and Awami National Party of Asfandyar Wali Khan appeared victorious while PML(Q) an ally party of the President Musharraf was badly failed to gain the support of the masses.Punjab was won by the Nawaz Sharif,Sindh by Asif Ali Zardari,the co-chairman of PPPP and spouse of the slain Pakistani women leader Muhtarama Benazir Bhutto,while NWFP(Pashtunkhwa) gave 31 provincial Assembly seats out of the 100 to Awami National Party and in Baluchistan the PML(Q) got 17 provincial Assembly seats out of 46.
It means that only in one Province PML is in the position to form government if its members will not cross the floor.The best advantage of the Election is that people rejected the agenda of the mulla-military and declared that they no longer wanted clerics and their promoters to continue their extremist and pro-terrorist policies against Pashtun/Afghans and Afghanistan.This shows that Pashtun do not like extremism and extremists alike.Therefore they voted secular,democratic and nationalist political prties to power through franchise and ballot and rejected mulla-military agenda of terrorism and extremism.
We have mentioned this fact time and again in our previous writ-ups that the actual drama in the Election of 2002 was staged by mulla-military alliance to protect the run away Taliban and Al-Qaeda fugitives in Pakistan and provided safe haven in the form of the clrerics government of the NWFP(Pashtunkhwa).Now when the Pashtun rejected them and their anti-Pashtun agenda,so it is reported that the same alliance is concentrating on Baluchistan where PML(Q) will be in Government and from there they are intending to continue their anti-Afghanistan programme,that,s why in Baluchistan PML was brought as a winner party fearing that joint government of ANP and PPPP will not leave terrorists and extremists to use the Pashtun soil against Afghanistan.Now it will be the duty of the coming government to discourage extremists and their promoters in the region and restore the confidence of the Pashtun who proved to be peace loving and anti-extremism.The new government in province is expected to discourge the forces which want to fight in Afghanistan against Afghan and Allied forces and harm democratic process there.We are of the firm belief that Musharraf and his cronies are not sincere in the war against terror and are just putting mud in the eyes of Americans and international community.Now Pashtun proved that they are neither terrorists nor their sympathisers.
International community will have to keep a vigilant eye on the activities of the establishment of Islamabad and gave a hand of the fraternity and friendship to Pashtun/Afghans and do not believe in what the Islamabad is saying against Pashtun.
Zar Ali Khan Musazai