PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan said that the country was being pushed towards unnecessary crisis and added that the parliament was the best forum to address political matters.
Addressing the workers convention of the party at Charsadda on Tuesday, the ANP president said that the politicians, by demonstrating political wisdom and acumen in their ranks and files, should avoid taking the cases to the courts.
“Imran has a big hand in eliminating decency from politics. There was no room for U-turn in politics,” he said.
The ANP chief urged the government to declare shares of the Pashtuns in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) industrial zone. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government overburdened the province by taking huge foreign loans and the next government would face difficulties in clearing the debts of the province, he added.
He also said that the political opponents, who were criticising the Punjab government day and night for making money illegally in metro bus projects, had now made their own metro bus in Peshawar to earn money.
He further said that despite massive horse-trading in Senate elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had shut its eyes and was not taking any action against the people involved in horse-trading. PTI’s own MPAs confessed in public about the money game in the Senate polls and there was no doubt left now that PTI’s members were sold out in majority, he added.
The ANP chief said that Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) should be given representation in the provincial cabinet by amending the constitution before upcoming general elections.
He challenged KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak’s claims of abolishing corruption and added that PTI’s own MPAs levelled serious allegations of corruptions against their own CM.