QUETTA: PashtunKhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) has announced to hold countrywide protest on Monday (today)۔
The PashtoonKhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) strongly condemned a raid conducted on Sunday by the Quetta administration, which claimed to have recovered a piece of government-owned land “illegally occupied” by the party’s chairman, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the presidential candidate contesting against PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari.
PkMAP General Secretary Abdul Rahim Khan Ziaratwal said during the “raid” at Achakzai’s house a security guard was arrested. The party alleged that the raid was conducted at Mr Achakzai’s residence and was a reaction of “state institutions” after a speech Mr Achakzai recently delivered in the National Assembly.
However, Quetta Deputy Commissioner Saad Asad said earlier on Sunday that the raid was conducted to reclaim a piece of land located near Mehmood Khan Achakzai’s residence. Mr Asad alleged that the reclaimed land, having an area of 2.5 kanals and encircled with a boundary wall, was illegally occupied by the PkMAP chief.
Condemning the raid, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Hafiz Hamdullah said the raid at an elderly politician’s house exposed the puppets. The sanctity of a house was violated during the raid, he said adding that it was against democratic norms to harass a family and raid a house.
Balochistan National Party President Akhtar Mengal also condemned the raid in a tweet on the social media platform, X. “Outraged by the raid on Mahmood Khan Achakzai’s residence. Zero tolerance for truth is loud and clear. Strongly condemn,” he wrote.
In a fiery speech in the Assembly on Friday, Achakzai had criticised rigging in elections and called for people’s mandate to be respected۔
On the other hand, former Balochistan Information Minister Jan Achakzai rejected claims about the raid.
The former minister said that authorities had undertaken action to free up illegally occupied land and said that that Achakzai’s home was not entered into.
