PESHAWAR, April 5: The Pakistan People's Party (Sherpao) has said that the previous PML-N government had fixed the net hydel profit (NHP) at Rs6 billion, when the Awami National Party was its power-partner in the province and at the centre.

In separate statements on Sunday, MPA Sikandar Hayat Khan and PPP-S provincial information secretary Syed Kamal Shah claimed that their party chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao had worked out a system of net profit's payment to the NWFP.

They said that it was the tenure of PML-ANP when the NHP was capped at Rs6 billion per annum. They reminded the ANP provincial chief, Begum Naseem Wali Khan, not to forget her party's role on provincial rights during their own, PML-ANP, government in the NWFP and Islamabad.

They said that the ANP could have quit the coalition governments on Pukhtunkhwa issue, but it preferred to stay in the power. After assuming charge of the water and power ministry, Aftab Sherpao had raised the issue of province's financial rights with the centre.

In another separate statement, Arbab Aftab Khan of the PPP-S criticized the PPP provincial chief, Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti, for nominating his son, Farooq Hoti, as vice-president of the party. He said that Mr Hoti had turned the PPP into a family organization.