Hazara to become a province

KARACHI - Linchpin of Tehreek-e-Hazara Sardar Haider Zaman, commonly known as Baba Haider Zaman, has said that Hazarawalls had established Pakistan and now they will get their own Hazara province, which is necessary for the protection of their generations. He was addressing a mammoth gathering of Hazarawalls at Railway Ground Kalapul on Sunday night. A large number of people belonging to the Hazara community participated in the rally, which was addressed by the supreme leader of the Tehreek-e-Hazara for the first time. Urging the entire Hazara community to show solidarity and unity among their ranks to make their own Hazara province a reality, Zaman said their all struggle and politics revolved around one-point agenda and that was to get Hazara province for Hazarawalls. He called the Hazara community to get ready for the sacrifices to achieve their own province. He warned that those wanted to establish Khyber Pakhtu-nkhwa would now see how we get the Hazara province. First we would follow all democratic ways to get our rights and see what and how the government respond to our demands, he said. He said that if the rulers did not show flexibility to establish the Hazara province, the Tehreek-e-Hazara would go all out and hold long march, civil disobedience movement and other ways to get their demands fulfilled. He apprised the gathering that Tehreek-e-Hazara had given one month deadline to the government to consider their demands and after that they would inform the Hazarawalls about the future line of action. The meeting was also addressed by Tehreek-e-Hazara and Hazara Youth League (HYL) Pakistan leaders including Alam Zaib Khan, Haji Khursheed, MPA Mushtaq Ghani, Naeem Ashraf, Wali Muhammad Jadoon, Sardar Iqbal, Sardar Yousuf and Junaid Qasim. The spokesman for HYL Pakistan Naeem Ashraf told The Nation that Baba Haider Zaman would stay in Karachi till Monday and meet with different groups of Hazara community residing in Karachi before he leaves for Abbott-abad the same evening.