The Awami National Party (ANP) on Monday accused the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of attempting to rig the coming by-elections, saying Fakhrudin G Ibrahim’s resignation was not enough.
Addressing a news conference outside the Parliament House, ANP leaders Zahid Khan and Haji Adeel criticised the former chief election commissioner, saying his resignation alone was not sufficient, and he should uncover those sitting beside him when the rigging was taking place on May 11, the day of the general elections.
The party’s central spokesman, Khan said during the earlier polls, when the ANP was in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the ECP had imposed a ban on ministers’ visits to particular constituencies as well as on beginning any development work there.
However, Khan elaborated that in the current as well as previous by-polls, the ECP appeared to be sleeping. The ANP leader accused the ECP of wanting to rig the by-elections.
Training their guns at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, the ANP central information secretary accused Imran Khan of engaging in summoning meetings of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial secretaries “to achieve his desired results in the by-elections”.
“We accepted the results of previous elections as well as the by-polls to keep the democratic system intact and functional,” said Khan.
He noted that when the ANP was in power, the then opposition was criticising them for the law and order and other crises, but “the situation is worst now”.
The ANP senator said his party had filed adjournment motions against the price hike and DI Khan jailbreak, as these issues were of great public concern.
Adeel, a senior leader of the party, accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led government of trying to withdraw the powers of the provinces that were given to them under the 1973 constitution.
He said PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had recently passed a statement that the government vowed to alter Article 158 of the constitution that empowered each province with the rights if it had gas reservoirs.
“It is either fortunate or unfortunate that Punjab never put into use her own reserves of gas and coal, and relied on the resources of other provinces,” he said, asking “was that the reason that people gave PML-N government with mandate?”
To a question, Adeel said his party had requested a meeting of the Upper House of parliament in this connection and vowed to oppose it, adding that the government did not even enjoy two-third majority in the House.
What a non=sense and rubbish allegation on ECP by ANP.The common man has the right to ask you about your rubbish performance as so-called Alliance during 2008 to 2013.What you people have given the nation? If you have no trust on governmental Departments,then why the general public keep trust on improved your-self and be Pakistan loving and do not work on outsider`s funding’s and dictations.Do not create disturbances in the country and be positive to Pakistan and its people.
Ghaffar Khan and Wali Khan had gone to the extreme stage of confedration of the entire Pashtun areas on the name of "Pakhtoonistan".
Ghaffar Khan was opposed to the creation of Pakistan. He was defeated by Muslim League of Quaid-e-Azam during the referendum and N-WFP became part of Pakistan in August 1947 but he spent the next 50 years of his life to break Pakistan. The red color in NAP/ANP Flag represents communism and was funded by USSR (now Russia). Many young men have been smuggled to USSR during 1980s. Ghaffar Khan had refused to be buried in Pakistan, and upon his death in 1987, was buried in Jalalabad (Afghanistan).
Wali Khan & followers are also credited for throwing the country into darkness by vehemently opposing Kalabagh Dam (capacity of more than 3000 MW) giving dictator Musharraf the opportunity to open the door of Corruption through "Rental Power" in July 2006 and letting the NRO-beneficiary PPP regime to grossly abuse the RPPs.
The foundation of ANP is based on racism and is an ethnic-based party, always professing a particular ethnic origin. When came to power the only achievement that this party could boast on was change in name of the province (notwithstanding the whims of Hazara & DIKhan).
The party formed provincial government only once (2008-2013) but broke all records of corruption, even surpassing the Sindh govt – as per Transparency International's report. They even made huge kickbacks from the ammunition meant to fight terrorism. Asfandyar Wali's real nephew was made the Chief Minister by ANP but he kept living in Dubai & Islamabad and hardly visited Charsadda during this tenure!
Since the government was without an ideology and merely on ethnicity it did nothing to improve the life of its masses, paving way for PTI to flood in for which it was not prepared at all!
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