Any battle or war sans a capable general is sheer, suicidal stupidity, former ANP provincial president Begum Nasim Wali said on Tuesday.
Castigating her politically-incapable son, ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, expressed her dismay that the party’s strength and valour of the golden era of yore had faded along with departures of Bacha Khan, and Wali Khan.
Citing the march of Bacha Khan against colonial rulers in 1927, she said, “Absence of leadership for an eagerly awaiting crowd of supporters is quite a debilitating factor. Better not fight such a battle or war.”
She berated Asfandyar for changing the very manifesto and constitution of the party prevalent since the National Awami Party days (identity), and said whatever treatment Asfandyar meted to her, he behaved in a similar way with the masses.
She was critical of her being totally ignored and sidetracked for any consensus over party matters for an entire six year period, and questioned the past support, trust of the Election Commission of Pakistan and transparent elections while accusing it over current success of the PTI, as of now.
She said the ECP was investigating the matter, and “if it found any anomalies it has promised to repeat the elections”, she said.
