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NOWSHERA: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Amir Muqam on Sunday accused the Awami National Party (ANP) of playing politics over the bodies of the Pakhtuns in Karachi. Addressing a public gathering in the Jalozai Camp in Nowshera, he said the entire Pakhtun nation had rendered sacrifices in the fight against terrorism but the leadership of the ANP had reaped the rewards.“We don’t want to belittle the sacrifices offered by the ANP leaders and workers but they have received the price manifold,” Amir Muqam argued. He accused the ANP of being responsible for the targetted-killings of the Pakhtuns in Karachi. He said the Pakhtuns were living peacefully in Karachi and earning their livelihood before the arrival of the ANP there.
“Four suicide attacks have been carried out to kill me. Several leaders and workers of our party were killed in the tribal and other areas in the province. But we are not playing politics over their bodies,” he stressed. He said his party activists had formed peace bodies in Peshawar but the government did not extend cooperation to them.
“This camp bears witness to the fact that the Pakhtuns have offered sacrifices and suffered untold miseries in the war against terror. The people belonging to Malakand Division and the tribal areas had to leave their hometowns and live here under tough conditions,” he said.
The PML-Q leader alleged that the PPP and the ANP leaders were looting the country’s resources and extending their rule in the name of democracy. He said the nation knew the stooges of the US and those behind the US drone attacks. Muqam said that investigation into the memogate scandal should be held to ascertain the facts.
