CHARSADDA, July 17: The Awami National Party has rejected both the constitutional packages of the military government, terming them a threat to the federation.

Addressing a public meeting at Wardaga village here on Tuesday, Begum Nasim Wali Khan, provincial president of Awami National Party, warned that the two constitutional packages would further undermine the rights of the smaller provinces and a 1971-like situation would emerge.

Begum Nasim said that in these packages all the powers “have been concentrated in the person of president.”

She said her party was struggling for the rights of smaller provinces and would fully participate in the coming election.

Today the whole world was following nationalistic politics advocated by the leaders of her party for decades, she said and congratulated party workers that “only the ANP’s ideology had triumphed while those espoused by other parties had failed.”

She stressed upon party workers to go to the hujras and fields of the masses and convince them about the importance of the coming election and inform them of the gravity of political chaos the country was faced with. The meeting was also addressed by Sangeen Wali Khan, district president of the party.