ANP warns against non-implementation of APC decisions on CPEC

MINGORA: Awami National Party (ANP) provincial chief Ameer Haider Hoti on Monday said that they would launch a protest campaign if the federal government failed to implement the decisions taken in the all parties conference (APC) regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.

Talking to reporters in Saidu Sharif and Ajrang areas here, he said that the federal government had assured the APC to not make any changes to the original plan and give the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa its due share in the multi-billion development project.

He said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was a failure. He said that even PTI’s lawmakers’ levelled allegations of corruption against own party’s chief minister and his cabinet members.

Ameer Haider Hoti said that Swat Motorway was the project of the previous ANP-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and they had included it in the Annual Development Plan. Commenting on the Pakistan and Afghanistan relations, the nationalist leader said that improved relations between the two neighbouring countries was the need of the hour.

He said the peace in Pakistan was linked to peace in Afghanistan. He said that the forced repatriation of Afghan refugees would create problems and strain the already tense relations between the two countries.

“Involuntary repatriation of Afghan refugees would only create distances among the people of the two countries,” he added.  Ameer Haider Hoti said that ANP wanted the allegations of offshore holdings against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family probed, adding the PTI approach on the issue was undemocratic and irresponsible.He alleged that PTI chief Imran Khan was trying to use the Panama Leaks revelation as a tool to become prime minister.