KOHAT, Sept 24: Begum Naseem Wali Khan, provincial president of the Awami National Party, has accused the successive governments of usurping the rights of the smaller provinces and called upon the Pakhtoons to get united to stop this exploitation and materialize the dream of Bacha Khan’s strong Pakhtoonkhwa.

Speaking at an election rally in Ustarzai here on Monday, she said that her party would make all efforts to claim the provincial share from water and hydel profits being denied by the centre for several decades. She said, “the seaport is of Sindh and wheat is of Punjab then how could the NWFP’s water and electricity resources belong to the whole country.

Criticizing the policies of the religious parties, Nasim Wali said that in the name of Jehad they had destroyed Afghanistan and today the Pakhtoons are being killed with the connivance and support of the West.

“Now they are repenting but I blame them for the murder of Pakhtoons on their own soil for the crimes of a few fanatics. They supported different sects among Muslims which killed each other for more than a decade and as a result our country and Islam was defamed,” she remarked.

About Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal she said that it was an alliance of the heads of seminaries whose job was to lead the prayers and not to take part in politics. They want to succeed in the coming polls just to make Pakistan another Afghanistan which ANP would never allow.

The ANP candidate for national assembly Fazl Raheem alleged that the government wanted to rig the elections.