Pashtunkhwa National Awami Party Announces Protest Rally in Quetta on September 17
Quetta – The **Pashtunkhwa National Awami Party (PNAP)** has announced a massive protest rally and public gathering in Quetta on **September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)**, against rising public hardships, injustices, and alleged excesses by state institutions. The announcement was made by PNAP’s provincial president, **Nasrullah Khan Zarey**, while chairing a joint meeting of the party’s district and provincial executive committees at the central secretariat.
The meeting was attended by senior leaders including Central Senior Secretary Syed Qadir Agha Advocate, Provincial Secretary Faqir Khushhal Kasi, Deputy Secretaries Nida Singar, Rehmatullah Sabir, Suleman Bazai, and Baz Muhammad Pashtoon, among others.
Nasrullah Khan Zarey highlighted the severe issues facing residents of Quetta and surrounding areas, including **18–20 hours of power outages, unfair gas load-shedding, worsening sanitation, corruption, traffic gridlocks, rising inflation, and unemployment**. He accused WAPDA officials of confiscating electricity meters and subjecting citizens to harassment, while gas shortages have left households, especially women, struggling as supplies are cut off at night and only partially restored in the morning.
He further alleged that law enforcement agencies harass citizens, students, and workers daily through **illegal challans and mass detentions of motorcycles**, making life unbearable for the poor. Quetta’s sanitation system, he added, has collapsed, with garbage piling up in major localities like Kotwal, Nawan Killi, Sariab, Alamoo, Muneen Shehar, Pashtoonabad, Shaldara, and Bypass, while cleanliness is only ensured in VIP and official areas.
The PNAP leader also pointed to increasing street crimes, drug mafia activities, and thefts in the city, while criticizing the **customs checkpoint at Baleli**, where truck drivers are allegedly forced to wait for hours, causing traffic jams and risking lives of patients in emergencies. He claimed that drivers are forced to pay heavy bribes.
Zarey accused the government of destroying livelihoods of **vendors, daily wage earners, and laborers** through harassment by traffic police, while inflation continues to crush the common man – with flour prices rising by 30% in just two months. He also condemned the crackdown against Afghan refugees, closure of their educational institutions, and forced deportations across the Durand Line, calling it a “grave violation of human rights.”
The PNAP has directed all district units in Quetta to mobilize support for the protest. Nasrullah Khan Zarey appealed to all patriotic citizens, workers, students, and the public to participate in the **protest rally from the party secretariat to Bacha Khan Chowk**, and the **grand public gathering** to raise a united voice against injustice, inflation, and anti-people policies.
