MARDAN, June 3: Local leaders of the Awami National Party along with their family members and friends announced joining the Pakistan Muslim League-N here on Sunday.

Haji Sadbarg, Haji Sarfaraz and Riaz along with family members and friends made the announcement of quitting the ANP at a press conference at the Mardan Press Club.

The PML-N district president Inayat Bacha, general secretary Nawabzada Arsala Khan, senior district vice-president Col (retd) Sher Afgan Khan, Rabita committee chairman Shad Ali Khan and large number of party activists were also present on the occasion.Those joined the PML-N, while speaking on the occasion, said the ANP had buried the philosophy of great Pakhtun leaders Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan and Abdul Wali Khan and started politics of looting and corruption.

They alleged the ANP leadership had forgotten their ideological workers after coming into power and brought forward opportunists and turncoats.

SALARY RAISE REJECTED: The All Pakistan Clerk Association has rejected the twenty percent increase in salaries of government employees as announced in the budget.

At a meeting on Sunday, the provincial president of All Pakistan Clerk Association Aurangzeb Kashmiri said that price hike had been increased by 200 per cent in the country but the government had increased salaries of government employees by only 20 per cent. He alleged that the government had deceived them by announcing just 20 per cent increase in their salaries.

MR Aurangzeb Kashmiri announced to lock all government offices and launch protest demonstrations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from June 5 till their demands were met.