Why PML(N) Haggles Over NWFP Name Change?
By Sher Ali • Jan 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics • 21 CommentsPukhtoonkhwa, Abaseen or anyother name would be fine if it is accepted by the people of NWFP, or to majority of them for that matter. Nothing can be perfect and not everyone in this world could agree upon single one thing. So the rule of thumb is to accept the aspirations and inclination of the majority.
PML-N due to it’s unreasonable and stubborn stance over the name change of NWFP to Pukhtoonkhwa or anyother for that matter has become confined to just Hazara division and even there, their position is not ideal. Just for the hazara people, the name of NWFP cannot be changed to something related to their clan and all should respect the majority wishes, and PML-N needs to understand that.
It seems that at last they have got that into their heads. Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has constituted a party committee headed by Sartaj Aziz to consider over the change of the name of NWFP and to hold talks with Awami National Party (ANP) over the issue. This is a golden chance for them to gain some strength back in this war-ridden province, which needs stability and the leaders at national and provincial level of this province needs to look beyond this name change issue.
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Sharif brothers are working to Make Punjab as Punjabistan.
It is so minor issue raised by ANP in major political and military set back time in present situation.
It clearly indicates the casual attitude of ANP toward matters of provinces.
Their juggling attitude towards serious political matters like corruption in govt level, NRO issue, Judiciary restoration and negligence toward rehabilitation process is further showing us their real face .And it is not more than opportunists who are also busy in filling their pocket in this time of destruction of NWFP
Look Sister whats the matter I would call you as Ziaan. Infact noting happens just mould your good name, Would you justify this OR better I would restrict it Z A N.
What has Punjabi party got to do with this issue of NWFP? Punjab as always trying to dictate every one else.
Pakhtoonkhua, Baluchistan & Sindh should join together to make Secular Republic of Pakistan and leave Punjab to become Taliban Emarat Punjab where Nawaz Sharif can have franchise of khilafat from Mullah Omer. Everyone happy.
@3 see brother in better way in correct form
there is no need to mold
just read it like NA ZIA( means dont waste) time and effort on me about my reshaping and molding my particular originality.
I live in my free , fair and natural way and enjoying it better than others who are living in world of deceit or self conceit or might be world of imagination like that.
@6 I agreed what you reply! allow me to answer in that fashion. One day later I have mistakenly and apologizingly change your identity and you figure out with waste of time. Rather qote unqote molding your particular originality. So at time history Pukhtoonwha is our identity why the use to change the name to Faislabad from montgemery if I am wrong plz correct me.
Sorry to remind you of first comment on minnor issue raise by ANP. So dear @6 this issue is waved way back in provincial assembly of considerable majority not only by ANP, but i must mentioned PML at that time not PML (A,B,C,D.E……..).
We agreed you are living in free, fair and natural way and that must be ones desire of every Pakistani because we respect democratic free will.
Identity is what we must not shaken with imagination. Without identity you are nothing
I am wondering why Afghania is appropriate for NWFP. Pukhtookhwa seems more plausible, because it shows the Pukhtoon majority.
@7
Identity is what we must not shaken with imagination. Without identity you are nothing.
Are you sure what you mean by giving such statements.
do your such acts reflect your alphabetical juggling in which you consider yourself as an expert.
Changing the name of faisalbad from lyallpur and shaiwal from montegemry in one side is denial of actual history of the area or might be for pleasing rich friends by slavery attitude, but totally based on selfish or flattery political decisions.
It is one of difficult task to be free of fear, fair in your dealings and managing real identity in this net world.
I have maintained all , throughout my tenure in this web world but in this way of survival I lost my trust on web people because of showtime of cheating, lying and some time highly obnoxious attitude with out proper reasoning.
I am still trying hard to bring people out of their true identity but you can see that people cant face reality of bitterness in their attitude and even cant accept the fairness in their attitude.
So identity crisis matter in our surrounding is still unsolved and denied due to lack of courage in our inbuilt stubborn behaviors.
This is what happening in state matters that without seeing the demand of time we are unreasonably tangling on those baseless issues that are worth less in this time when every Muslim is asking us that why Muslims living in our mountains are daily blowing themselves to kill Muslims only.
We are now living with this identity which is forcibly imprinted on us by a military dictator.
@9 first of all thanks for correcting me over sahiwal and Faislabad thats what I want to asure your statment regarding naming convention, quote it as a minor issue. Repeatedly I have wrongly mentioned it but you were swift enough to correct me on spot.
Dear what kind of reasoning you demand from web people every one has the right to think , speak and act upon. History is something else if we talk about history please mentioned Durand Line also.
Identity crises due to stubborn behaviour: Quote Muslims! do you mean Islamic state or nationalism. Dear expert don’t mix religion with nationalism. Allahamdullelah I am muslim but Religion is a Principle of life and your identity is your nationality, tribe and sur name. We have made it critical on religious basis let me inform you that ALLAH ALMIGHTY says in Holy Quran in the context that we have divided you in groups and tribes in order to be known from your identity.
Muslims in Mountains: Do you have ever being there in mountainous people. I myself being very much annoyed that the whole blame rests on my people my tribe. Dear Expert we have the courage to be free and fair in this respect military dictators are made our heroes by our own political parties. I
agar pakhtoons ko apne subbe ka naam pakhtoonkhua rekhne ka huq nahi he to phir punjabion ne
apne subbe ka naam punjab, sindhion ne apne subbe ka naam saindh ar balocheon ne apne subbe
ka naam balochistan kun rakha hua he?
you don,t like us and we (Hindko speaking) don,t like you.
we are different nations, we were pro Pakistani and always voted for muslim league.you followers of ANP were pro Congress an anti Pakistan party. your guru bacha khan hated pakistan and is burried in Afghanistan according to his will.
the best slution is to make Hazara a saperate province, na rahay ga bans aur nah bajay gi bansri.
it will be a rich province as terbaila dam is in Hazara.
Jiay Hazara
Dear friends, bros and sister, I red some of the comments and then replies to each thers among you.And i notice that really we are in 3rd world and some people are highly developed than us like america and europe.And the same way they had been advanced and they passed through these things.
But whenever i see there is some thing wrong with us pakhtuns and panjabis, singhi and now hindki are opposite of us.
If you cannot bear other he cannot bear you.If you have made the name change issue a big issue why you not solve it. There is something wrong but what is wrong Allah know it and we do’nt know.But remember if are converting small issues into big issue we will do the same.And the rat should not play on the tale of the lion.I am not mentioning panjabi sindhi and balochis as the rate please but there is another who is acting like that mouse and rat.
Bros and sisters please if people need pakistan, so please dont talk like this as you people did above.See now i am angry and like this other will becom angry.so this is democracy?
Please feel shame from international nations and do’nt split this land.
No problem rename it to khyber and go to ask and solve another problem, because we have to go very far and this too late bros and sisters.
Allah Pa Amaan and In Peace of God!
Changing name of NWFP: A political drama towards disintegration.
For decades ANP used the issue of renaming the province as a political agenda, and now when they are in absolute power, they have no option, but to address the issue they once created. I am wondering how the changed name of the province will bring a favorable change in the life of those who are living in this province:
• Will the intensity of bomb blasts decreases or the suicide bombers will stop exploding?
• Will the masses get better health and education facilities within a clean environment to live?
• Will there be no more load shedding of electricity, gas, sugar and ‘atta’?
• Will the lawlessness and cases of kidnapping for ransom will decrease?
If the answer to these questions is yes, then I am the first to swear that I will fight till death for this noble cause. However, if this is not the case, then what is the logic of making a bigger crisis out of this ill-advised and poorly perceived issue?
If the ANP is successful in changing the name, what can be the consequences? To address this critical question, we have to accept the hard reality that Pashto is not the primary language of majority in Chitral, Kohistan (both Swat-Kohistan and Indus-Kohistan of Manshera), Abbottabad, Manshera, Haripur, Kohat, and Dera Ismail Khan. These will be the aggrieved districts, if the name is changed to Pashtoon-Khwaa or Paktoon-Khwaa or Afghania etc. Similarly, the majority in these districts will resist to varying degree against this unpopular decision. Once, the Pandora box is opened, then we should not forget that our hidden and apparent enemies will help the locals in these aggrieved districts to claim some autonomy, merge with others, stay independent or whatever. If the ANP is under the impression that they will control the future mob and resistance, they have an open choice now to test their muscles in FATA, even with the full support of Para Military and Armed Forces of Pakistan.
The actual strengths of the NWFP are its unique resources like water, forests, natural gas and vast agricultural lands of the south. Regarding water resources of Pakistan, we have to admit that most of the water ways and water storages are more in the control of those potential aggrieved districts mentioned above. Once the resistance due to changed name is started, the control of water will be no more be in the hands of those, who are controlling the things now. Thus, if ANP by virtue of its stance as the local party working for the welfare of people of NWFP; will lose its strength of being custodians of water resources of Pakistan, then what will be their say in the national politics.
Similarly, most of our productive and valuable forests and associated wildlife are in Chitral, Kohistan and Manshera. Again all these are the potential aggrieved districts. We cannot neither find the valuable Diar nor the globally recognized and most expensive trophy animal of the world - Markhor in Charsadda and its surrounding districts. These forested areas are also a great source of tourist revenues for NWFP. Most of the national and international tourists are interested in visiting Chitral, Swat Kohistan and Hill tracts of Hazara. Except for Lower Swat all the areas are again the potential aggrieved districts. We also have to take into consideration that whether any tourist will ever bother to visit lower Swat, when they are aware of the fact that Green Chowk, the business centre of lower Swat was the favorite site of certain hidden forces for hanging the beheaded bodies of the residents of Swat.
Natural gas in Karak district is another great resource of the province. The Khattaks of this area are smart enough to understand that they will never be like the residents of Sui, who are still without gas, where as the gas of Sui is distributed from North to South and East to West corners of the country. The Khattaks are already agitating whenever they feel discriminated in matters related to gas. Moreover, ANP is present in papers once we cross the Kotal pass or the Kohat tunnel. So, leaders of ANP should stop daydreaming that they will ever negotiate on the basis of the natural gas resources of Southern NWFP.
Another big resource of the NWFP is its vast potential agricultural lands of Karak, Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan. In the past, these areas were kept intentionally backward by the political forces of NWFP, so that the dominance of Charsadda and its surroundings should stay intact. However, who so ever is a regular visitor of these areas for last few decades would have noticed that now these areas are turning ‘green’. Thanks to the Chasma Right Bank Canal, as it improved the water table in the southern districts of NWFP. Now with the cheaper but technologically improved water pumps (tube wells), the virgin lands of these southern districts are turning into more productive agricultural lands. Again, the masses of these districts have no sympathizes with ANP, their leaders and their political agendas. They still remember the words of the then leader of ANP, Abdul Wali Khan, who during the cold war era, declared the people of these districts as the potential “labour class” of independent Pakhtoonistan.
FATA always enjoyed the independent status, so, if ANP leaders will try to merge the tribal agencies with their Paktoon-Khwaa or Afghania, they will only face resistance. Same will be the case of the PATA, as they will definitely keep their separate identity and will be more comfortable with FATA, as against some other alternative arrangements.
When ANP and their Paktoon-Khwaa or Afghania, will be without the water resources, forests, natural gas and vast agricultural lands, on what basis will they take part in the national or local politics? Their remaining strongholds of Charsadda, Mardan and Nowshera will produce nothing except a few ‘Khans’ and lot of their enemies.
If we as Pakistanis want our separate identity, it is high time that we come together, join hands against our hidden and apparent enemies and talk about integration. For that to happen, we have to forget our differences and political agendas and it is an excellent opportunity for ANP in NWFP to come with the suggestion that we will definitely change the name of our province, but the name of that province will be “Amnistan” – a place of ‘Amn’ or in other words ‘a place of peace, serenity and tranquility’. First, they will swear and promise that this province will never be a battle field for others to fight their war over here, and then we will promise that we will never allow anyone to use our lands as battle fields for others. If such words will come from the souls and bodies of all of us, our future is bright, InshaAllah.
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Faeid shahzad khan shilmani your right I am agreed with you
ta so rishtia weala de oh sta khybra thaik de
Farid Shahzad Khan Shilmani on March 20th, 2010 :
Dear friends, bros and sister, I red some of the comments and then replies to each thers among you.And i notice that really we are in 3rd world and some people are highly developed than us like america and europe.And the same way they had been advanced and they passed through these things.
But whenever i see there is some thing wrong with us pakhtuns and panjabis, singhi and now hindki are opposite of us.
If you cannot bear other he cannot bear you.If you have made the name change issue a big issue why you not solve it. There is something wrong but what is wrong Allah know it and we do’nt know.But remember if are converting small issues into big issue we will do the same.And the rat should not play on the tale of the lion.I am not mentioning panjabi sindhi and balochis as the rate please but there is another who is acting like that mouse and rat.
Bros and sisters please if people need pakistan, so please dont talk like this as you people did above.See now i am angry and like this other will becom angry.so this is democracy?
Please feel shame from international nations and do’nt split this land.
No problem rename it to khyber and go to ask and solve another problem, because we have to go very far and this too late bros and sisters.
Allah Pa Amaan and In Peace of God!
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