PESHAWAR, June 1: The National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP) decided here on Thursday to merge with the Awami National Party (ANP), says a press release.

It said that the party’s central executive council met here under its acting president Mohammad Sharif Khattak.

The NAPP president, Arbab Ayub Jan, would announce the merger at a press conference in Peshawar on June 12, the press release said.

NAPP was formed in 2000 and its founder leader Mohammad Ajmal Khattak had already joined the ANP.

SUGAR CESS: A meeting of the NWFP assembly’s standing committee on food was held here on Thursday under the Syed Mureed Kazim Shah.

Maulana Mujahid Al Hussaini, Maulana Abdur Razzaq, Mufti Hussain Ahmad, the secretary food, representatives of the sugar cess commissioner, the finance and law department participated. The committee directed the officials concerned to provide details of receipts of sugarcane cess so that recommendations are made for its proper utilization.

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