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Monday, April 12, 2010
PML-Q goes all-out against NWFP renamingBy Akhtar Amin
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) are at loggerheads over the renaming of the NWFP, with the PML-Q calling the ANP “a party of fundamentalists” and the ANP saying the PML-Q was an “adopted child of a military dictator”.
Addressing a press conference, the PML-Q leadership, including its President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, NWFP President Amir Muqam, Senator Waseem Sajjad and others, accused the ANP of imposing a “one-party proposed name on the people of NWFP”.
The PML-Q announced its support for the people of Hazara, saying they would cast their votes against Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa when the bill is tabled in the Senate.
Shujaat said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif betrayed the people of Hazara by backing Khyber-Pukhtoonkhwa as the NWFP’s new name.
He said Nawaz called Hazara his “second home”, but betrayed the people of the region in the hour of need.
Amir Muqam demanded a referendum on the renaming issue, saying if the ANP succeeds in the referendum, it can rename the NWFP after Baacha Khan or Abdul Wali Khan, let alone Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa.
Meanwhile, a private TV channel quoted the PML-Q as saying that it would not allow the PML-N to hold its workers’ convention scheduled for today (Monday) in Abbottabad.
The PML-Q said its workers would stage a sit-in at the Fawara Chowk in Abbottabad to protest the NWFP’s renaming.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk