September 02, 2007	Sunday	Sha'aban 19, 1428

PESHAWAR, Sept 1: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) has called off its public meeting scheduled for Sept 6 on the request of the PML-N which is preoccupied with the return to the country of the Sharif brothers.

A meeting of the APDM’s leaders was held on Saturday at the Bacha Khan Markaz, ANP’s central secretariat. A new date for the rally would be announced later.

The meeting was attended by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader and MMA provincial president Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, Jamaat-i-Islami’s naib amir and MMA MNA Shabir Ahmed Khan, PML-N leader Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat and Dr Said Alam Mehsud and Mukhtar Bacha of the PMAP, Afrasiab Khan Khattak of the ANP and leaders of the Tehrik-i-Insaaf. Other component parties of the alliance also attended the meeting.

Provincial general secretary of the ANP and organiser of the meeting Mian Iftikhar Hussain rejected the idea that the meeting was postponed because of the security situation and said it had been put off on PML-N’s request.

He said the alliance had not bothered about security risks in Rawalpindi and Quetta where it had held successful public meetings.

He said that politicians had always risked their lives and were not afraid of threats.