'Formation of Hazara province inevitable'

LAHORE - Nobody can dare to stop the formation of new Hazara province. We will stop payment of utility bills and block Shahra-e-Resham if one million people are pushed to the wall. Chief of Hazara Movement Sardar Haider Zaman while talking at a forum conducted by TheNation here on Sunday said we were demanding our rights keeping ourselves within the framework of the Federation. Haider Zaman said we are Pakistani and do not want to harm the country. He said Hazara had been a province during the Sikhs and English rulers and our demand was not on the linguistic basis. The graph of PML-N reached 'zero in Hazara as the League had also established the Khayber PK in the 18th Amendment, saying President Asif Zardari also committed the extra-Constitutional act by mentioning the name of province Khyber PK in the United Nations about one and half year ago. He said that if Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali were loyal to the flood-hit people, they should bring the money back in country from their foreign accounts. Haider Zaman claimed that all the political parties of Hazara were favouring the formation of separate province as the leaders and workers of ANP and PML-N working in Hazara were also in favour of the new province. He said that elected politicians of PML-N also wanted to join the movement but the locals were not ready to accept them as they remained involved in martyrdom of 250 Muslims. Haider claimed that movement for separate province was strengthening and we wanted to get separate province on administrative basis. He said that the struggle for the new province would continue and we did not want to give any deadline. He said that our rulers should use their senses as the Country was divided in 1971 for not being given rights to the people and no power could stand before power of the masses.

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