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Sunday, December 11, 2011
PPP-S lashes out at ANP for ‘disappointing’ publicStaff Report
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao group) charged Saturday ruling Awami National Party (ANP) with ‘sinking’ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) economically and administratively, saying the ruling party ‘disappointed’ the Pakhtun Nation.
“New nationalism is emerging because the ruling party has disappointed the Pakhtun Nation and it is looking at Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao) to solve their problem,” Sikander Sherpao Khan, provincial president of PPP-S told a news conference after welcoming former office-bearer of Pakhtun Students Federation, Arbab Mir Afzal Daudzai and Rafiqullah of Pakistan Muslim League (N) to the party fold. He said it was ‘big honour’ that ruling party’s people were joining the PPP-S and reason for it was that the ANP ‘disappointed’ the Pakhtun Nation when it is in power.
“The government’s economic and administrative policies both have failed and the province and its people are paying the price,” Sikander Sherpao, who is also member of KP Assembly, went on to say. “We are not referred to as worse hit by terrorism or militancy, we referred to as having the ‘most corrupt’ government n the province,” the PPP-S provincial president alleged.
He argued: “The (ANP) government has neither planning nor vision to develop the province and prosper the people. The government has failed to come up with the people’s expectation.” Sikander Sherpao added that the people lost confidence in the present government and the PPP-S would emerge as alternative force to provide solution to their problems.
Sikander also called the country’s foreign policy “failure” and feared Pakistan was heading in direction of “isolation.” He believed the government should have gone to the Bonn conference on Afghanistan where it could have pleaded own case. “It was a big mistake not to go to the Bonn conference,” the PPP-S provincial president charged.
He said the PPP-S doors are open for all political forces given that they agreed on one point: ‘talking Pakhtuns.’ “We may reach electoral alliance with forces which follow our policy on solution to the Pakhtun nation,” he clarified but added that that moment was not yet arrived since elections dates were not yet announced.
Earlier, Mir Afzal Daudzai explained why he was quitting the ANP and joining the PPP-S. “We have a conclusion that the ANP was no longer the same ANP believing in serving the masses. It (ANP) priorities have changed and public service seems no more the ANP agenda,” he said.
He said the PPP-S ‘represents new (Pakhtun) nationalism’ and its agenda in this regard “promises bright future for the Pakhtun people.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk