PESHAWAR, July 15: The Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party has said that it will no longer tolerate the killing and kidnapping of its activists and leaders across the Pukhtun belt spread over the NWFP, Fata and Balochistan.

Speaking to the party workers at the provincial secretariat, Dr Said Alam Mehsud said that there was no government in the NWFP, he said.

Condemning the murder of Farman Khan, a PMAP provincial leader, he said his killers were still at large.

Two weeks ago, he said, PMAP leader Abdus Samad Achekzai and his two companions were killed, but the government had done nothing. The people had protested against their killings, but the government had failed to nab the killers. He also said that kidnapping-for-ransom was on the rise as two months ago, two leaders of the PMAP, Hameed Ali Shah and Zardan Shah, were kidnapped in Bannu. He said the PMAP had organised protest rallies but the government had done nothing. Dr Mehsud demanded of the Balochistan government to arrest the killers of Dr Achekzai and Farman Khan and ensure the release of Hameed Shah and Zardan Ali Shah, otherwise they would launch a protest drive.