ISLAMABAD: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai clarified on Thursday that an Afghan newspaper had incorrectly quoted him as saying Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “belongs to Afghans”. In an interview, the Afghanistan Times had quoted Achakzai as saying, “If Afghans are harassed in other parts of Pakistan they should come here to the Pakhtunkhwa province, where no one can ask them for refugee cards because it also belongs to them. “Kabul and Islamabad should exercise extreme caution to resolve Torkham crossing conflict. Otherwise, they should leave the issue to the US and China, and they would resolve it within two weeks,” he was quoted as saying. But, in an interview to a private news channel, the PkMAP leader clarified that he had been misquoted by the Afghan media. Achakzai said that he had only stated that Pakhtunkhwa was historically a part of Afghanistan. However, he claimed had never said that the province belonged to the Afghans, as quoted by the Afghan daily.