There are precictions that the ANP will won 10-12 MNA’s from NWFP, and win a very large number of seats in the provincial assembly as well. No doub they will make the renaming of NWFP to Pakhtunkhwa, a demand to any party that seeks an alliance with them?
Considering that Nawaz Sharif agreed to this demand in 1997 after making an alliance with them, then went back on his word, I wonder which party will agree to it?
I don't find a big deal with it either unless the ANP actively starts destabilizing Pakistan like the role it and its buddies played when the USSR was financing awwghani communists until USSR's demise. Any dumb awwghans who get the idea that renaming the province to pukhtunkhwa means getting their WET DREAMS need to be smacked hard by army and ISI [their original job].
I would rather it be kept as NWFP and that more important "issues" were focused upon ie education, social progression. Why are stupid politicians wasting time on renaming when they could put their energy into something of ACTUAL use.
Those people who have time to discuss renaming do not have to worry about income, medical costs, education costs...I wonder if those advocating the renaming and with hours to waste on it have financial problems? Probably not as those hours to waste on it would be put to earning more money for financial improvement.
Why is it that this issue is such a big deal for those who dont even have any attachment to the area? I would love to se a thread on this subjec with ONLY people from NWFP contributing to it.
Why dont we rename Karchi Pakhtunkhwa as it has the highest concentration of Pashtu speakers anywhere in the world?
I dont mind whatever the people of NWFP like to have name for them.
but notion that Sindhis have Sindh and Punjabis have Punjab is not logically correct.
Sindhis are called cause they are from Sindh!
Punjabis are called cause they are from Punjab not the other way around.
so first name the land of NWFP and name the people after that. in NWFP we are trying to do otherway around. naming the province after people.
or name it like Blochistan which is i guess named after people. in that sense it can be Pushtunistan or Pakhtunistan or Pakhtunkhua.
but thats my idea, it can be called anything what you people like to have.
Is the renaming woth all the expense, energy, time thats involved in a referendum which will be rigged anyway?
I dont agree with the name NWFP but which name can people agree on? If people disagree with a Pashtu related name then from non-Pashtun areas such as Hazara, Kohistan, Chitral and D I Khans bordering areas with Seariki speaking Dera Ghazi Kahn - will they be allowed to opt out and form their own areas?
Hold a referendum in NWFP and let the people choose what they want to call their province.
