Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Saturday that his party would spare no effort to unite the Pakhtuns on a single platform. In a statement issued from Watan Kor, he underscored the need for making efforts to bring all the Pakhtun nationalist forces together to come up with a strategy to address the challenges facing by the Pakhtuns.
"We had proposed making joint efforts to forge unity among the Pakhtuns," Aftab Sherpao said. Welcoming the statement of Awami National Party (ANP) leader Asfandyar Wali Khan about his call for the unity of the Pakhtun leadership, he said that his party was willing to agree on a minimum common agenda to find a solution to the problems facing the Pakhtuns. He announced the formation of a four-member committee comprising QWP organiser Haji Mohammad Ghufran, Mohammad Jamil Advocate, Asad Afridi Advocate and Tariq Ahmad Khan to go ahead with the task. "We also welcome the efforts of all those who are striving to help the Pakhtuns get their rights and remove their sense of deprivation," he added. He said that the Pakhtuns were faced with a host of problems in the prevailing situation and there was a dire need for making collective efforts to unite them.