Hoti urges workers to get united

TAKHTBHAI: Awami National Party (ANP) leader and former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Tuesday called upon the party workers to get united and ready for a greater and effective role in the wake of the rapidly changing scenario in the region.

“The ANP has always supported the pro-democracy forces and will never compromise on principles,” he stated this while speaking to participants of the party consultative committees at the Khudai Khidmatgaran Hujra, Mian Essa in Lundkhwar here.

Office-bearers of committees, including Said Jamal Bacha, Farooq Khan, former lawmaker Ahmad Khan Bahadur, Said Gauhar Bacha, Mian Tahir advocate, Jawad Khan Takkar and others presented various suggestions for strengthening the party at the grassroots level.

Lauding the performance of committees’ members and party workers, Haider Hoti said that the ANP had a respectable place among other political parties for its unflinching support to the democratic values and rule of law in the country.

He said that today more need was felt for the Bacha Khan’s philosophy of nonviolence to bring lasting peace to the region.

The ANP leader, who is also Member National Assembly, said that condolence references would be held for party leaders late Haji Latifur Rahman and Begum Nasim Wali Khan aka Mor Bibi at Bacha Khan Markaz in Peshawar on June 2 and June 4, respectively.

Coming down hard on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, he said the rulers had failed on fronts owing to its flawed economic and foreign policies.

He said the incumbent government had only caused destruction and rendered millions of people jobless.