PESHAWAR, June 4: Pakistan Awami Party (PAP) has dissolved its provincial-and district-level bodies across the country, and will hold elections at the districts and tehsils, said a press release.

Speaking at a function here on Monday, organized in connection with the party foundation day, the PAP central president Fanoos Gujar asked party workers and office bearers to complete elections in the four provinces before July 15.

Various political leaders, including Dr Ghulam Hussain, Saleem Saifullah Khan, Sikander Sherpao and Afzaal Khamoosh, spoke on the occasion.

Gujar said that PAP mission was to eliminate poverty, ignorance, injustice, and corruption from society and to restore true democracy in the country. He urged the government to resolve people’s problems, and distribute state land among farmers and shelterless people.

He said that PAP represents the middle and lower class, and would continue to protect the rights of the poor.

He also said that the people would back the armed forces if India were to impose war on Pakistan.