ANP’s priority to restore peace in tribal areas: Asfandyar
Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) on Monday agreed on an agenda to eliminate terrorism, create provincial autonomy and restoration of judiciary. Speaking to press conference after party’s committee meeting ANP’s leader Asfandyar Wali said that crisis in the tribal areas and other parts of the country could only be resolved by involving all the stakeholders in the peace process.
He said his first and utmost priority is to restore peace and end the sense of insecurity among the masses. He was flanked by Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, Afrasiab Khattak, Haji Adeel, Mian Iftikhar Hussain and others. He also said that the ANP MPAs in the NWFP Assembly would select their leader in a parliamentary party meeting, who would be nominee of the party for chief minister office.
Asfandyar said that he has a blind support for PPP in Sindh and Balochistan, while in the Frontier province PPP would back his party. Both the parties would form separate committees for the future set-up in the NWFP coalition government he added.
He said the parliament will decide the fate of the deposed judges and independence of judiciary.
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