MARDAN, Feb 11: Central leader of National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP), Ajmal Khatak, has said his party’s struggle for a free democratic and modern Islamic welfare federal Pakistan will continue.

Addressing the NAPP workers’ convention here at the residence of the provincial secretary youth affairs Muaazim Khan Hoti, Khatak said that his party was not against religious parties and Ulema, and if someone thinks he can root out such parties from politics, he is living in a fool’s paradise.

He said that he would like Pakistan to be an Islamic welfare democratic and a federal state, but the rights of the Pakhtoons will remain a priority.

He claimed that the NAPP was gaining popularity, particularly in the workers and labourers; quite a few political and religious have expressed their desire to enter into an alliance with them.

He said that he was doing politics for the poor and will defeat the feudal and traditional politics in the area.

Ajmal claimed that his party would form governments both in the centre and the provinces in the coming election.

He said that the army cannot do it alone. The rulers should take all the parties into confidence; their alienation could prove fatal.

About Afghanistan he said that he appreciated the efforts of the chairman of the interim government of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, for burying the past with reference to its relationship with Pakistan, but the same attitude is needed inside Afghanistan.

He said that Afghanistan desperately needs a national army (Milli Urdu).