June 19, 2007	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 03, 1428

MARDAN, June 18: The provincial president of the Awami National Party Women’s wing, Zahira Afrasiab Khattak, has said that great Pukhtun leader Bacha Khan struggled all his life for the unity of his nation but unfortunately his dream remained unfulfilled.

Ms Zahira paid tribute to sacrifices of the Pukhtun leader at a workshop organised by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) for ANP workers here at the party office. She deplored that today Pukhtuns were undergoing miserable times in the region and were deprived of their rights and resources.

She said that the ANP wanted peace and prosperity not only in the subcontinent but all over the world, as wars could not solve problems. On the contrary it brings poverty and misery for the people.

She asked women to come forward and organise the women’s wing of the ANP and spread a message of peace and goodwill upheld by Bacha Khan.

Former ANP joint secretary Naveed Khan while briefing party workers on the party constitution and agenda said that the strength of a society could be judged from the strength of political parties and civil societies.

He said if political parties and civil societies were weak, country was weak and development and stability of a country depended on it. He said that it was need of the hours to organise more workshops, particularly for women, for creating awareness about their political rights.

TWO KILLED: Two people were gunned down, including a naval commander, while another sustained injuries in two incidents of family feud and a robbery in the district.

In the first incident of a family feud, police found a Lieutenant Commander of the Pakistan Navy identified as Mohammad Ayaz dead on Sunday morning in front of his house in the Sheikh Maltoon Town area.

Later on his relatives charged his wife, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and niece in an FIR registered at Sheikh Maltoon Town police station. However, no arrest was made.