Condemning the assassination of ANP leader Mukarram Shah in Swat on Sunday, Awami National Party Vice President Haji Adeel urged the interim government to provide fool-proof security to ANP leaders and candidates.
He said the ANP leaders had been receiving threats from terrorists and it was very difficult for them to run election campaigns and hold public rallies.
Adeel said the ANP leaders faced threats from terrorists because of the party’s categorical stance against militancy in the province.
“We are being targeted as our government wiped terrorists out of Malakand division and took military action against terrorists across the province,” he said.
Shah is the second ANP leader who fell victim to terrorists before elections. Former ANP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPA Adnan Wazir was killed in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in Bannu while former ANP agriculture minister Arbab Ayub Jan survived assassination bid on Friday in the jurisdiction of Chamkani Police Station, Peshawar.
Adeel said such coward attacks would not deter the party from contesting elections.
