SWABI, Sept 28: Rahim Dad Khan, provincial chief of the People's Party Parliamentarian, has said that his party has already launched a movement against President Gen Pervez Musharraf to quit his army post in accordance with a pledge he had already made.

"President Musharraf is acceptable to us neither in uniform nor without it," he said while addressing a public meeting in Totali on Tuesday. He said whether the MMA wanted to go ahead for a movement against the president or not did not matter. The PPP movement against the general, he added, had gained momentum.

"We are the people who want the restoration of true democracy," he said. Mr Khan further said that the PPP had participated in the Oct 2002 elections under a well-planned strategy and the struggle would continue unabated till the restoration of real democracy in the country.

Like the late dictator, Gen Zia-ul-Haq, President Musharraf had pushed the country into anarchy. If there were terrorists in Wana they were the product of the army, which forced them to wage war in war-torn Afghanistan in the first place, he claimed, adding that now the army was bent upon wiping these very people out.

He said nationalists had also deceived the people because the populated province of Punjab was made hostile towards other federating units, further polarizing the crisis-ridden society.

Mr Khan called for the restoration of 1973 Constitution in its original farm, demanding that all political parties should support the PPP in this context. "It is the Constitution which calls for the establishment of real parliamentary system," he pointed out.

KILLED: A young girl was crushed to death by a truck here on Tuesday. A truck, No GLT 2049, was on its way from Swabi to Mardan when it ran over a girl Afiya, who was crossing the road. She died on the spot. The father of the deceased has got an FIR registered against the truck driver who fled from the scene after the incident.