PESHAWAR, May 22: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) said on Monday that it would not accept any name other than Pukhtunkhwa for the NWFP and linked its stance to a resolution that it had moved in the provincial assembly about the proposed change.

Speaking at a public meeting in Ejazabad, Gulbahar, on Sunday, PPP provincial president Rahimdad Khan said the PPP had rejected the name (Khyber) suggested by Gen Pervez Musharraf for the NWFP.

Mr Khan said that some years ago the PPP‘s general secretary Najmuddin Khan had tabled a resolution in the assembly to get the name of the province changed to Pukhtunkhwa. He welcomed a large number of political activists, who resigned from the Awami National Party and joined the PPP.

Tribal Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TACCI) president Mohammad Akbar Khan and Mohammad Aslam Mohmand, a former ANP city district general secretary, who along with their colleagues, announced their decision to join the PPP.

PPP provincial senior vice-president Syed Qamar Abbas, general secretary Najamuddin Khan, MPA Syed Zahir Ali Shah, Syed Ayub Shah and Farid Khan Toofan spoke on the occasion and welcomed the new entrants into the party fold.

They said that the signing of the charter of democracy by the PPP and PML (N) leadership would help promote political stability in Pakistan.