PESHAWAR, Aug 16: Awami National Party has slammed the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s government for its failure to implement its manifesto in the 10-month-rule in the province, said a party’s press release here on Saturday.

ANP’s Central Vice President Haji Mohammad Adeel said that the MMA which reached the corridors of power because of its connections with the Taliban, had now begun abandoning them and portray themselves as a modern version of the Taliban to the West.

He said that at the time of taking over power in the Frontier province, the MMA had placed a ban on music in public transport, cable television network, treatment of women by male doctors and paramedics at the hospitals and training of women players by male coaches, but all such announcements had proved to be entirely empty slogans.

The MMA women, he said, now sit in the assemblies and their children were now studying in modern schools just to get certificates from the West that the MMA was not the Taliban, said Mr Adeel, adding that the MMA was originally Taliban, but they did not have unbridled powers which were enjoyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.