F.P. Report
LOWER DIR: Awami National Party central spokesman and party nominated candidate for NA 7 Lower Dir Zahid Khan has asked the Afghan commander to accept the killing of innocent Pukhtun instead of issuing statements against the ANP.
He was talking to a group of local journalists at his residence in Odigram here on Monday.
The ANP spokesman said the election commissioner of Pakistan and the caretaker government should provide equal opportunity to all political parties and provide them with a level playing field. He said that elements involved in the May 9 and 10 riots should be properly investigated and sentenced through courts. He said the ANP would oppose banning the Pakistan Tahreek Insaf or abolishing its election symbol.
“It is the ECP responsibility to provide level playing field to all political parties during the general elections,” he said, adding the caretaker government had no authority to crackdown workers of a specific party or issue statements regarding national and international affairs.
He said the ANP would contest the next elections as per its manifesto and party’s election symbol. He said there had been no rifts in the party ranks and workers and leadership were on the same page. The ANP leader condemned the repatriation of Afghans without prior planning and said the government should honour international law while repatriating the Afghan refugees.
Meanwhile the ANP district general secretary Malik Muhammad Zeb demanded of the vice chancellor, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan to appoint local youths in the varsity’s Timergara campus. Talking to local journalists at Timergara, he said that there were reports that about 350 employees of the AWKU Mardan were being adjusted at the Timergara campus. He said the university should appoint local educated youths against the vacant posts.
He said the ANP would strongly resist the transfer of AWKU Mardan employees to the Timergara campus. He also demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Haji Ghulam Ali to look into the matter and resolve it.
