ANP asks Centre to review ties with Afghanistan

TIMERGARA: Awami National Party (ANP) information secretary Zahid Khan on Friday called on the federal government to review its ties with the neighbouring Afghanistan. Addressing a gathering of party workers at Qazi Abad in Lower Dir district, he urged both the countries to stop using their lands against each other's interests.

Kisan councillor Qazi Nasimullah and youth councillor Razauddin along with more than 120 family members, relatives, friends and political workers announced joining the ANP."It is more surprising that the government had kept Wagah border in Lahore open despite the fact that India was busy killing the innocent peoples of Pakistan whereas the western border with the brotherly Afghanistan was sealed," Zahid Khan said.

He added that on the one hand, PTI chief Imran Khan and JI chief Sirajul Haq were running the so-called movements against corruption but on the other they have kept silence over corruption scandals of ministers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Zahid Khan alleged the Centre had totally ignored Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the mammoth China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.

He warned that ANP would go to any extent for the rights of Pakhtuns.He said the PTI-led provincial government had failed on all fronts and now it had planned to cut the salaries and GP funds of teachers, which he termed as shameful. Zahid Khan announced on the occasion to provide natural gas and a transformer for the residents of Qazi Abad village.