Clear-cut stance on route issue stressed

PESHAWAR: Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek Tuesday asked all the political parties of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to adopt a joint and clear-cut stance on the issue of change in the route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the All Parties Conference (APC) convened by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on May 28.
Speaking at a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, the leader of the Tehreek, Dr Said Alam Meshud, urged all the political parties to sink differences and unite for the rights of the province.
He said the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would resist any change in the route of the project. He alleged that the federal government had changed the original route of the corridor and ignored the backward areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
He urged the provincial government of the two provinces to take the issue seriously and initiate efforts to bring all the nationalists and provincial political parties on one page to put pressure on the federal government to restore the original route of the CPEC.