ANP invited to join Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad

PESHAWAR: The Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad on Tuesday invited Awami National Party (ANP) to join the alliance of the nationalist parties that had been formed for resolving the problems of Pakhtuns.

Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), Mazdoor Kisan Party, National Party Pakhtunkhwa Wahdat, Awami Workers Party and Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehrik recently formed the alliance for working for the rights of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A delegation of Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad comprising QWP’s Sikandar Sherpao, Asad Afridi, Tariq Ahmad Khan, AWP’s Shahab Khattak, Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehrik’s Ajmal Afridi and Zahir Shah Safi, Mazdoor Kisan Party’s Afzal Khamosh, Gul Haider Khan, Shakeel Wahidullah, National Party Pakhtunkhwa Wahdat’s Syed Mukhtar Bacha visited the Bacha Khan Markaz.

ANP general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Abdul Latif Afridi and Sardar Hussain Babak received the delegation. The Pakhtunkhwa Jamhoori Ittehad leaders formally invited the ANP leadership to join the alliance.

The ANP leaders informed the visitors that the points of the meeting would be presented to the party leadership and they would be informed in the next meeting.

Mian Iftikhar Hussain appreciated the efforts of QWP for uniting Pakhtuns. He said that ANP was already taking steps for this purpose, adding that ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan had felt the need for this alliance after the general election results.

The ANP general secretary told the PJI leaders that ANP chief had held the meeting with the Pakhtun leaders, including JUI-F head Maulana Fazlur Rehman, PkMAP chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, JI’s head Sirajul Haq at the residence of Ghulam Ahmad Bilour in Islamabad.

He said that ANP had constituted a committee for the purpose and added that unity of the Pakhtun nationalist parties was needed for resolving the problems being faced by Pakhtuns.