SWABI, Oct 25: The MPs-elect belonging to the MMA have said the community could no longer by exploited by the Walibagh leaders in the name of Pukhtoon rights and the religious parties would make all-out efforts to get the province’s due share from the Centre.

They included MNAs-elect Shabbir Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Usman and Maulana Khalil Ahmad, while the MPAs-elect were Maulana Fazal Ali Haqqani and Abdul Majid Khan.

They expressed their views in the Rabita programme of Abaseen Union of Journalists here on Thursday night.

Shabbir Ahmad Khan said that efforts would be made for securing power royalty of the NWFP from the federal government. Those who had made a hue and cry in this respect did nothing while in power.

He predicted that Sindh and Punjab provinces would also come under the religious parties’ umbrella. “Our first and foremost duty is to establish an Islamic society, ensure equality of all citizens before the law, provide equal employment opportunities and control price hike,” he said.

The other MPs said the NWFP, being a gateway to the Central Asian Republics, was strategically and economically very vital region. If the government really worked hard, this region could become a hub of economic activities.

The MMA government in the NWFP, they said, would give due importance to forging trade and economic links with the Central Asian states, where natural resources exist in abundance. They claimed that the US had devised a plan to keep these resources under its control.

They said that only the MMA central leadership would nominate its candidate for the chief minister’s slot in the NWFP.