PESHAWAR, Feb 3: NWFP Assembly Speaker Bakht Jehan has stressed the need for people and police joining hands for total elimination of terrorism from the country.

He expressed these views while speaking at a condolence reference held here in honour of martyrs of the Peshawar suicide bomb blast on Saturday.

He said the death of police officers and the elected representatives in the bomb blast had set a matchless example of friendship between the two sections of society and the people of Peshawar would always be proud of it.

“The martyrs of the blast have foiled the nefarious designs of the saboteurs and everybody talks of the valour and bravery of late DIG Malik Saad and other police officers and people’s representatives,” the speaker said.

He said every law-abiding citizen had been moved by the tragedy in Peshawar.

District Nazim Ghulam Ali, MNA Shabbir Ahmed Khan, MPAs Syed Zahir Ali Shah, Dr Zakir Shah, Bishop of Peshawar Romal Shah, Vice President Tariq Afaq, member of district council Tahira Bukhari, trader leader Haji Haleem Jan and CCCP Abdul Majeed Marwat also addressed the reference. They termed the blast a conspiracy against the country.—APP