PESHAWAR, Aug 9: The Awami National Party on Tuesday expressed concern over the ‘killing of innocent Pukhtuns’ in the name of war on terrorism in South Wazirstan, saying that terrorists had been created by the establishment and not Pukhtuns.

“The establishment gathered the clerics on a platform to create terrorists,” alleged ANP Information Secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain at an election meeting at Pabbi village.

He said people would never vote for the candidates of the clerics. People recognized the real faces of the clerics, who were responsible for the death of hundreds of Pukhtuns in the Afghan war, he said. He claimed that the Awami Dost group would sweep the elections. He said the ANP was not against Islam.

He said the party would continue its struggle for complete provincial autonomy, including its control over its resources.

He called upon the Pukhtuns to unite on a platform to foil the conspiracies being hatched against them.

He said the Pukhtun nation would be eliminated from the map of the world if it failed to unite. He said the Kalabagh dam project would spell doom for three provinces of the country.