06 March 2005	Sunday	24 Muharram 1426

PESHAWAR, March 5: A former MPA and leader of the Awami National Party of Mardan district has joined the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

Announcing his joining of the party, Said Rehman Mohmand on Saturday said: "I have remained an active worker of the PPP in the past and assure full support to the party in future too."

Highlighting the PPP importance, he said it was a national party as its motive remained solidarity of the country. The PPP had a successful foreign policy, and the world had recognised it, he remarked.

About his affiliation with the party, he said: "I joined the party in 1974, and contested the election for district council Mardan in 1979, on PPP's ticket and was elected as chairman."

He said that in 1988 general election, he had been elected MPA from the PPP platform. He reposed full confidence in the leadership of Benazir Bhutto.

Speaking on the occasion, provincial PPP president Rahimdad Khan said: "People consider that only the PPP can help steer the country out of the current crises and put it on the path of development", he claimed.