PESHAWAR, Jan 30: Provincial chiefs of Awami National Party and Pakistan People’s Party, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapters, on Monday decided to apply ‘democratic means’ to get their candidates elected unopposed in the Senate elections.

Addressing a joint press conference after their meeting at Pabbi, near here on Monday, ANP’s provincial president Senator Afrasiab Khattak and PPP’s provincial president Senator Sardar Ali said that they had agreed to bring under use ‘democratic means’ to get their candidates elected unopposed in an effort to discourage horse trading in the upcoming Senate elections.

They said that both the parties had an agreement over the issue of holding free and fair Senate elections for which they had decided to formulate a well thought out strategy.

The two parties, they added, would also contact leaders of the opposition parties having representation in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. They hoped that the opposition parties would extend their help to the ANP-PPP coalition government in its endeavour to hold free and fair elections.