Three-day “Pashtun National Jirga” hosted by the National People’s Party begins today in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Seats have been reserved for about 1,000 people in the hall for the Jirga, which begins on March 11 in Mirakhel, Bannu.
Mahmood Khan Achakzai, leader of the Pakhtunkhwa National Awami Party, told Mashal Radio on March 7 that the Jirga was attended by Pashtun nationalist and religious political parties, writers, teachers, scholars, professionals, tribal elders, religious scholars and women. Has invited
The Jirga’s invitation letter said that the meeting will discuss insecurity in the Pashtun areas, unemployment of the people and control over the resources and urged the participants to use their knowledge and wisdom in this Jirga. “Share and evaluate ways to implement decisions.”
Achakzai added that the agenda and power of the Pashtun National Jirga in Bannu would be for the participants, not the party.
Mahmood Khan Achakzai announced in a speech to tens of thousands of people gathered at the funeral of the party’s Balochistan provincial leader and former senator Usman Khan Kakar at Muslim Bagh on June 23, 2021 that he would return to Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa three months later. Holds a jirga for Pashtuns to solve “problems”, but this jirga did not take place then.
