NOWSHERA: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf would face defeat in the next general elections, as it failed to fulfil the promises it had made with the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a public meeting at Khaushgi Payan here on Tuesday after oath-taking ceremony of the party’s new office-bearers of Nowshera tehsil, Mr Hoti said that ANP would sweep the next polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as PTI had ignored the people who had brought it into power. He said that PTI had deceived the people through false claims of ‘change’.

He urged the people to forge unity and said that they had to win the ongoing fight against terrorism at any cost.

Mr Hoti said that the merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would bring a new era of development in the region.

He said that ANP had presented a resolution in the National Assembly and KP Assembly against harassment of Pakhtuns in Punjab.

He said that a committee under the leadership of party general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain had been formed to meet with Pakhtuns in Punjab and form a report. He said that discrimination against Pakhtuns would not be tolerated.

Meanwhile, one Mohammad Riaz was shot dead allegedly by his cousins here at Bara Banda, Risalpur. His body was taken to the DHQ hospital.

The police have registered an FIR against Darya Khan and his brothers.

Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2017