Summary Asfandyar Wali Khan says hunger strike will be staged outside parliament house by the party
PESHAWAR: (Dunya News) – Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has on Tuesday said that the party will stage a hunger strike outside parliament house over the blocking of Pakhtoons’ National Identity Cards (NIC), reported Dunya News.
Addressing a public meeting in Peshawar, Asfandyar Wali Khan criticised Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, saying that he was being an enemy of the Pakhtoons. NICs of almost half a million Pakhtoons have been blocked, he said, and a hunger strike will be staged outside Parliament House against the action. He added that ANP’s protest won’t be a DJ and dance protest like Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s protest.
Talking about the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Asfandyar said that Prime Minister had only given them a lollypop as he wasn’t serious in FATA’s merger into KP.
He expressed gratitude over the recommencement of Pak-Afghan peace dialogue, saying that the problem wouldn’t be solved without a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan, and a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan.
