Threat to democracy not over yet: Iftikhar

PESHAWAR: Urging unity to foil any move to derail democracy, General Secretary of Awami National Party (ANP) Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Saturday said his party would not be a part of any deal to disrupt democratic process in the country.

“There is still a threat to democracy. And if assemblies are dissolved it would affect the democratic process in the country,” the ANP leader told a press conference here.

The ANP leader said that there were rumours regarding technocrat government and it would be a setback for democratic process if anything like that happened in the country.

He said that the arrangements to observe the death anniversaries of party founders have been finalized.

The followers of Bacha Khan and Rehbar-e-Tehreek Khan Abdul Wali Khan have rendered unprecedented sacrifices for the supremacy of democracy and public gathering of ANP is also an effort to strengthen democratic system in the country, he added.

He urged masses to attend today’s public gathering as it would help strengthen democracy in the country.

APP adds: Commenting on the incidents of violence against children, he said that it was a new form of militancy that had instilled fear in children and their parents.

He appreciated the arrest of the culprit involved in Kasur incident and said that what

has been done to arrest and punish those who committed atrocities against innocent children in the past.

He alleged that KP government was trying to hide the culprits of DI Khan, Mardan and Nowshera brutalities.

He said that failure to eliminate crimes is a proof that those who are at the helm of affairs are incapable and inefficient.

ANP leader said that

existing scenario in our region demands that Pakistan and Afghanistan should sit, address concerns and devise a strategy against militancy.