APDM devided over renaming of NWFP
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By Mumtaz Alvi
5/27/2008Islamabad
All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) faces strong difference of opinion on the proposed naming of NWFP as Pakhtoonkhwa, envisaged in the PPP’s constitutional package.
One of the key components of Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) has fully supported the move, whereas** Jamaat-e-Islami, another major APDM member party, has expressed reservations thereon.**
Similarly, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf has also rejected renaming of the province without taking its people into confidence, insisting on doing so after having a referendum in this context.
When approached for his party’s reaction, PkMAP Secretary General ex-Senator Akram Shah, welcomed the inclusion of renaming of the province in the constitutional package, and said that it was a long-standing demand of the Pakhtoons that they should be given identification by changing the province’s name.
“We welcome the move spearheaded by Awami National Party and will support it on all fora,” declared the nationalist leader while talking to ‘The News’ on telephone.The former lawmaker even said that **they would hail bringing Pakhtoon-majority areas of Balochistan and Mianwali and Attock into ‘Pakhtoonkhwa’ fold as a federating unit. **
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