Pro-Pukhtunkhwa rally staged in Oghi

MANSEHRA: A rally was staged in Oghi Sunday to celebrate the renaming of the province as Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa.
Oghi is an important town in Mansehra district, where protests against Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa have been regularly held. The participants of the rally marched through various roads and gathered at main square of the town for the public meeting.
Addressing the rally, Roshan Khan, Rafique Khankhel, Imtiaz Ahmad and others said that the Pukhtuns struggled hard to get their identity. “If Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan could be named on ethnic lines, what is the harm if the NWFP is renamed after Pukhtuns,” argued one of the speakers. They said that they were not against the demand for separate province for Hazara people but constitutional and legal path should be followed for creation of a separate province. They also prayed for the protesters, who lost their lives in Abbottabad, saying that those who were inciting poor and innocent people for their vested interests should be brought to justice.