PESHAWAR: Pashtun leaders rejecting the ongoing effort of framing a new constitution for Afghanistan have said that it was aimed at bringing the largest ethnic majority under the subjugation of minority leaders. Speaking at a news conference held in the provincial metropolis on Saturday, leaders of the Afghan Liberal Party and Afghanistan Peace Struggling Democratic Party, including Ajmal Sohail and Shan Bacha Shinwari, urged President Hamid Karzai to take into confidence all the political parties while formulating a new constitution for the embattled country. The constitution, they said, was aimed at depriving the Pashtuns of their rights, despite being the largest ethnic entity in Afghanistan, on behest of the Persian speakers. There was no mention of the Hanafi sect in the constitution which was being practised by the majority, they said.
| Several delightful points on this item, starting with the fact that it's posted from Peshawar, the capital of Pashtunistan. By virtue of having a (theoretical) bare majority in Afghanistan, something an actual census would either confirm or deny, they demand to be in charge of all of the country. On top of which, they demand that their own intolerant Soddy-based sect be enshrined in the constitution. |
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