Pashtoon, Baloch jointly struggled against One Unit from a single platform

Pashtoon, Baloch jointly struggled against One Unit from a single platform:
Senator Abdul Rahim

ZHOB:22.10.2010
Deputy Chairman of Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party Senator Abdul Rahim Mandokhail has said that PONM was established to promote mutual cooperation between Pashtoons and Baloch nationalities of Balochistan province. Baloch patriot even today believed in the harmony of Pashtoons and Baloch.
He expressed these views while talking to this journalist at his residence here in Zhob.
He further said that Mashar Mehmood Khan Achakzai was heading PONM even to date, adding that Pashtoon and Baloch jointly struggled against One Unit from a single platform. The Pashtoon province should have also been created here but the leaders in Islamabad only created Balochistan in 1970 which he regarded discrimination with Pashtoons.
Responding to a query, he said providing protection to the lives and property of masses was the first and foremost duty of the state, adding that the Pashtoon also had the fullest right to protect their lives and property.
He said that if the state failed to provide security to the masses, the rulers had than no right to rule.
Condemning the target killings of Pashtoons in Quetta and Karachi he warned that if the target killings of Pashtoons did not stop, Pashtoons better knew how to revenge.
Commenting on the current visit of Interior Minister Rehman Malik, he said that instead of suppressing the Baloch national moment by force, the government should take way of negotiations and Jirgas for the solution of Baloch issues. In this way their problems can be resolved.

Rafiullah Mandokhail