Achakzai announces countrywide demonstrations to defend democracy

QUETTA: Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai has announced country-wide demonstrations for what he said defence of democracy.

Addressing a press conference at the Quetta Press Club on Sunday, he said that all the ‘like-minded’ parties will take part in the demonstrations.

“We don’t have personal enmity with anybody, to us all the institution are respectable, for the first time in Pakistan all the political parties are agree to defend the Constitution,” he said.

He urged democratic forces to make a joint front for the protection of the Parliament and the Constitution.

The Pashtun nationalist leader was of the view that some danda-wielding people wanted to wrap-up the system which was an insult to the 180 million people of Pakistan.