MANSEHRA, Jan 25: The Awami National Party has said that being a follower of the late Bacha Khan's policy of non-violence, it is all for a nuclear-free world.

The party's senior vice-president Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and provincial general-secretary Farid Toofan said at a press conference here that Bacha Khan andworkers of his Khudai Khidmatgar Tehrik had rendered great sacrifices for peace in South Asia.

They said the Tehrik had also played a pivotal role in throwing off the yoke of the British colonialists. They said the Bacha Khan followers fought for the rights of the provinces and smaller entities after independence.

They said the religious leaders, while entering into an alliance with the military rulers, have played a "foul game" and cheated the public who had voted them to power in the name of Islam.