PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party on Wednesday issued a plan for its workers in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to join the opposition’s long march against the federal government in Islamabad.

The preparations were finalised in a meeting at the QWP secretariat in Peshawar.

Party’s provincial chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao asked the district level organisations to reach their nearest interchange of the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway till 10am on March 26.

Prominent among those who attended the meeting and shared their views included Hashim Babar, Tariq Ahmad Khan, Asad Afridi advocate, Syed Fayaz Ali Shah, Dr Farooq Afzal, Akhunzada Sikandar Zaman, Akhtar Munir and Engineer Yousuf Zaman.

The office-bearers belonging to Charsadda, Mardan, Nowshera, Swabi, Buner and Peshawar representing students, youth, minority groups, women and labourers were also present.

QWP’s media coordinator Akhtar Ali told Dawn that the main procession headed by Sikandar Hayat Sherpao would leave the Peshawar Motorway interchange at 10am. The processions coming from different districts will join it at their nearest toll plazas for onward journey to Islamabad.

Sikandar Sherpao said that the opposition parties were fighting a just battle in the best interest of the nation. He said that the long march was a compulsion of the opposition parties to raise a forceful voice against the unprecedented price hike and pave the way for ousting the ‘selected’ government.

He said that the no-trust motion was the constitutional right of the opposition, but Prime Minister Imran Khan instead of proving his strength in the parliament was bent upon creating chaos.

He said the PM should prove his majority in the National Assembly or step down immediately.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2022