TIMERGARA: The Utmankhel tribe has announced to field its own
candidates on provincial and national assembly seats in Dir Lower during
the next general election.
The announcement was made during a meeting of the newly organized
Utmankhel Qaumi Movement Dir Lower held at Bandagai Talash on Saturday
with its district president and former ANP leader Haji Bahadar Khan in
the chairs.
Elders of the tribe belonging to Jandol, Maidan, Balambat,
Timergara, Talash and Adenzai attended the meeting which was addressed
by Haji Bahadar Khan, Muhammad Umar, Sher Muhammad and other tribal
leaders.
They said that the Utmankhel tribe had a historic role in freedom
struggle and development. They complained that successive governments
and its representatives despite its majority had kept deprived the
Utmankhel of their rights.
“None of the MPAs or MNAs have considered the Utmankhel so far in
development,” the former ANP parliamentarian Haji Bahadar Khan said,
adding that party politics had divided brotherhood, clans and tribes
into small groups. He said a countrywide organization of the Utmankhel
had been formed to struggle for their rights and unity.
He said Utmankhel had been residing mostly in rural and backward
hilly areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in large number.
“We often elect persons as our lawmakers but they ignore the tribe
after their election,” he remarked.
The meeting after necessary discussion announced to field
candidates from the platform of Utmankhel Qaumi Movement during the next
general election. A 15 member committee headed by Haji Bahadar Khan
was also formed to nominate suitable candidates for four provincial and
one national assembly seats in Dir Lower.
The meeting authorized Bahadar Khan to decide seat to seat
adjustment with other political parties if it was necessary. Through a
unanimous resolution the participants demanded of the federal government
to complete supply of Sui gas to Dir Lower as soon as possible.
20,000 JI workers to
participate in meeting:
The Jamaat-i-Islami Dir Lower on Saturday announced that 20,000 of
its workers would participate in Feb, 23 party meeting scheduled to be
held at Zafar Park Batkhila. A meeting in this regard was held at Ahyaul
Uloom Balambat with Dir Lower amir and former MNA Maulana Asadullah in
the chair. Nominated candidates for the next general election Syed
Sultanat Yar, Saeed Gul, Sahibzada Yaqub Khan and tehsil presidents
attended the meeting. The meeting was informed that 48 committees of
workers and volunteers had been formed in the district to mobilize
people to attend the JI public gathering. The meeting condemned the
present hike in petroleum products and demanded of the government to
immediately withdraw the decision. Addressing on the occasion, Maulana
Asadullah asked the party workers to convey message of the party to
every citizen and prepare them to attend the Batkhila meeting.
PPP-Sh STAND: Provincial leader of the Pakistan People Party
Sherpao and former minister Bakht Baidar Khan has said that declaring
Upper Dir as headquarter of the proposed division would strongly be
resisted.
Talking to this reporter here on Saturday he said that bifurcation
of the Malakand division was a useful suggestion because of its
administrative complication.
“But we will not allow to shift divisional headquarter to Dir Upper
as people of Dir Lower, Malakand agency and lower parts of Dir Upper
would resist this decision. The PPP-S leader also asked people of
Malakand agency to force their leaders to join Dir division instead of
Swat. “People of Dir Lower have always been selecting MNAs from Malakand
in the past. Now some people with vested interests want to include
Malakand agency in Swat division,” he said, adding that joining of
Malakand with Swat would never benefit people of the area.
He also demanded of the government to start immediately work on
Chakdara Bridge as according to him it was the government failure to
reconstruct it within two years.
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