Hazara province: APC soon to muster support of political parties: PMLN leader

MANSEHRA: The chairman of Tehreek-i-Sooba Hazara and PMLN leader, Sardar Mohammad Yousuf, on Wednesday said that an all-parties conference would be convened next week to seek the support of political parties for the creation of Hazara province.

“All preparations have been made for the all-parties conference in which MNAs and MPAs from across the Hazara division will also be invited as the creation of more federating units is essential to steer the country out of socio-economic challenges,” he told a press conference here.

Flanked by former tehsil nazim Balakot Junaid Ali Qasim and tehsil council chairman, Mansehra, Sheikh Shafi, he said that the Awami National Party (ANP) had included the renaming of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 26th Constitutional Amendment package.

“And we raised the issue with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PMLN head Nawaz Sharif and federal ministers. Thanks to both Sharifs and the PMLN ministers, the ANP’s demand to change the name from KP to Pakhtunkhwa was rejected,” Sardar Yousuf said.

He said that the all-parties conference would also form a committee that would engage with the leaders of political and religious parties to get their support for the passage of the Hazara province resolution, which was pending in the National Assembly.