PESHAWAR, Jan 13: Pakhtoon nationalist parties have hailed President Musharraf’s speech on Saturday and termed his point of view a true picture of religious outfits.

Talking to PPI, a leader of the National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP), Engineer Irfan, said Musharraf’s decisions would help curb the extremist elements in the society.

He said that his stand on Kashmir was according to the NAPP’s charter. The dispute should be solved through dialogue as war always led to destruction, he added.

A provincial leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, has said that if such decisions about the religious groups had been taken in the past the country would have not suffered so much. Such decisions would help towards progress.

He said the ANP had always struggled for a liberal, democratic and secular Pakistan.

Bilour praised the president for extending dialogue offer to India for the peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue.—PPI