Friday, December 24, 2021
Why is Pakistan eager to help Afghan Taliban when they don’t recognise the border, PPP leader Rabbani asks
Former Senate Chairman and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Raza Rabbani on Friday questioned the Imran Khan government’s eagerness to support the Afghan Taliban, when the latter was not ready to recognise the border with Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi said that the Taliban forces had stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an ‘illegal’ border fence along the eastern province of Nangarhar.
No one from the Pakistan government has formally issued a statement on this issue so far.
Pakistan has completed almost 90 per cent fencing work of the 2,600-km border despite protests from Kabul, which has contested the century-old British-era boundary demarcation that splits families on either side.Successive regimes in Afghanistan, including the US-backed governments in the past have disputed the border and this has historically remained a contentious issue between the two neighbours.
The border, known internationally as the Durand Line, named after the British civil servant, Mortimer Durrand, who had fixed the limits of British India after consultation with the then Afghan government in 1893.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Rabbani demanded that the Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi should take Parliament into confidence on this incident.
“They are not ready to recognise the border, so why are we moving forward?” he asked.
Pakistan on Sunday hosted the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers summit and urged the international community to lift sanctions on the Afghan Taliban regime.
The seasoned politician also warned over reports emerging in local media about the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) regrouping in Afghanistan in a bid ‘to possibly fuel terrorism in Pakistan’.
“On what terms is the state talking about a ceasefire with a banned outfit?” Rabbani questioned.
https://theprint.in/world/why-is-pakistan-eager-to-help-afghan-taliban-when-they-dont-recognise-the-border-ppp-leader-rabbani-asks/787214/
Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari extends heartiest felicitations to the Christian Community in Pakistan as well as all over the world on Christmas.
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has extended heartiest felicitations to the Christian Community in Pakistan as well as all over the world on Christmas being celebrated tomorrow.
In his message on the eve of Christmas, the PPP Chairman said that being the Party of All Pakistanis, the PPP has always been on the forefront for the rights of downtrodden and poor without any discrimination. Our Party always treats the non-Muslims, including the Christians as equal citizens, he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Christian and other minority communities have been granted equal rights by the unanimous Constitution gifted by Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto while Prime Minister Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari’s governments ensured representation to the non-Muslims in the elected Houses including the Senate of Pakistan. It was the PPP government under President Asif Ali Zardari, which declared August 11 as the National Minority Day in Pakistan, he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari urged the Christian community to offer special prayers for the peace, prosperity, and harmony in the country on the auspicious occasion of Christmas.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/25947/
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری کی پاکستان سمیت دنیا بھر میں مسیحی برادری کو کرسمس کی مبارکباد
انہوں نے کہا کہ ہماری پارٹی مسیحوں سمیت تمام غیر مسلموں کو ہمیشہ برابر کے شہری تسلیم کیا ہے۔ بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ وزیراعظم شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کی جانب سے قوم کو تحفے میں دیئے گئے متفقہ آئین کے تحت مسیحوں سمیت دیگر تمام اقلیتی برادریوں کو یکساں حقوق حاصل ہیں، جبکہ وزیراعظم شہید محترمہ بینظیر بھٹو اور سابقِ صدرِ مملکت آصف علی زرداری کی حکومتوں نے سینیٹ سمیت منتخب ایوانوں میں غیر مسلموں کی نمائندگی کو یقینی بنایا۔
انہوں نے کہا کہ یہ صدر آصف علی زرداری کی قیادت میں پی پی پی حکومت ہی تھی، جس نے 11 اگست کو پاکستان میں اقلیتوں کے قومی دن کے طور پر منانے کا آغاز کیا۔ چیئرمین بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے مسیحی برادری پر زور دیا کہ وہ کرسمس کے پرمسرت موقعے پر ملک میں امن، خوشحالی اور ہم آہنگی کے لیے خصوصی طور دعائیں مانگیں۔