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Monday, October 24, 2011
Separate province right of Hazara region’s people: Haider ZamanBy Abdul Khaliq Qureshi
ABBOTTABAD: We have raised our voice for creation of Hazara province to bring to an end the victimization of the poor by the usurpers and restore self-confidence and self- respect of the people of this region so that they could live with peace and harmony, said Baba Haider Zaman, Leader of Hazara Province Movement (HPM) on Sunday.
He was addressing a public gathering at Mangal near Qalandarabad some 20 kilometers from the city. He said a separate province was the right of Hazara region’s people. He said they raised their voice for the province from Hazara to Islamabad, and Karachi but the ruling PPP led coalition government made no progress on this issue.
He said most of the residents of Hazara were faced mental torture and difficulties in meeting the ministers to get addressed their grievances and problems in Peshawar after more than three to four hours travel by road. He said the delegations of the poor people of the area can’t afford unbearable expenditure of such travel and night stays in hotels to meet the ministers in metropolitan. He said they wanted a province for Hindko speaking people on the basis of Punjab for Punjabi spoken people, Sindh for Sindhis, Baluchistan for Baluchis, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) for Pushtoons speaking.
He said in Hazara province free education and health systems would be implemented on equality basis. He said equal human rights would be provided to the people of the region. He said there were 35 provinces in India and similarly Afghanistan and many other countries new provinces were created then why not the Hazara Province could no appear on the map of Pakistan. He suggested that more provinces could address public grievances at their doorsteps. He said that since April 12, 2010 till today no FIR against the brutal killing of Shuhada-e-Hazara was registered to arrest the culprits of the killers of innocent people. He said other political parties should support their movement. Dr Muhammad Azhar Khan Jadoon, spokesman for HPM said that the people of Hazara should not hesitate to come forward for joining hands for the creation of a separate province.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk