QUETTA: Awami Nati­onal Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali said on Friday that his party would not support any unde­mocratic and unc­onstitutional step in the country and would resist any such move.

Speaking at a public meeting in Harnai in connection with the death anniversary of Bacha Khan and Khan Abdul Wali Khan here, he claimed that his party never supported any unconstitutional step in the past and it would continue with its policy.

Mr Wali announced that the ANP would not enter into election alliance with any party and would contest election as a single entity.

Announces the party will not enter into election alliance

“The ANP will not make an election alliance with any party in Balochistan and other provinces,” he said. However, he said, that at a local level seat-to-seat adjustments with other parties could be made.

Referring to revival of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, he said that Maulana Fazlur Rehman was sitting with Nawaz Sharif and JI chief Maulana Sirajul Haq with PTI chief Imran Khan.

The ANP leader said that when Maulana Fazlur Rehman could stop implementing Fata reforms on a single phone call to Mr Nawaz Sharif then why he did not ask Mr Sharif for introducing Sharia in the country on a phone call. He said the entire nation must be aware of the Maulana’s role in this regard.

Mr Wali asked why Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was not fulfilling promises of Mr Sharif about the merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the western route of the CPEC when he (Mr Abbasi) still considered him (Mr Sharif) his prime minister.

Published in Dawn, February 3rd, 2018