MARDAN, Feb 19: The central information secretary of National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP), Sardar Asif Ali Shah, has rejected reports of his party merging with the Awami National Party (ANP).

Talking in a Meet the Press programme here, Sardar Asif claimed that there was no plan to merge the NAPP with the ANP and such rumours were being spread by some opponents and enemies of the party.

He, however, conceded that some members of the party were intending that the NAPP merge with the ANP but that was their individual efforts and the party had nothing to do with it.

He said that if any member of the NAPP wanted to join the ANP or any other party then there would be no hurdle in his path and it was the democratic right of a person to do so. However, he added that the member had no right to lobby inside the party to persuade another to join some other party.