PESHAWAR, Dec 3: The Awami National Party has announced to observe a hunger strike on December 11 against the increasing price hike in the country.

In a meeting of the party’s provincial executive council on Tuesday it was decided that hunger strike camps would be set up at the district headquarters across the province.

The meeting which was presided over by party’s provincial president Begum Nasim Wali criticized the government for not controlling prices of the essential items.

ANP’s provincial secretary information Mian Iftikhar Hussain told journalists after the meeting that the ANP would hold an international peace conference on January 20, 2004 on the occasion of the death anniversary of the Pukhtun nationalist leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan.