QUETTA: Central Secretary of Awami National Party (ANP) Mian Iftikhar Hussain has slammed the sit-ins staged by PTI and PAT in Islamabad.

The motive behind the sit-ins, he added, was to ‘rollback’ the 18th Constitutional Amendment.

Addressing the participants of a gathering arranged in the honour of party leader Arbab Zahir Kasi over his safe recovery and a meeting of provincial chapter of ANP, he claimed that the sit-ins were against democracy and the parliament.

He asserted that renaming of the province as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, shelving of Kalabagh dam, announcement of NFC award, naming of Peshawar Airport as Bacha Khan Airport and establishment of several universities in KP were results of successful policies of ANP-led coalition in the province.

The senior ANP leader alleged that his party was penalised in the 2013 polls by some quarters for its pro-people policies in KP and despite reservations “we accepted the election results for a sustained democracy”.

He also offered fateha for the deceased party’s provincial leader Malik Amanullah Kasi who expired last month in Kabul.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2014