MANSEHRA, May 22: President of Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Tuesday said if government reopens the Nato supply route in the country ignoring the recommendations of parliament, people will oust it.

“The government stopped Nato supply on its own but later gave parliament the right to decide about its reopening. If it restores supply without meeting the conditions set by parliament, then people will drive it out,” he told reporters here.

Mr Sherpao regretted the US had yet to respond positively to the two conditions set by Pakistani parliament for the reopening of Nato supply.

“Parliament asked the US to check drone strikes in Fata and formally tender an apology to Pakistan over killing of soldiers in Nato attack on Salala checkpost attack, but none of these demands have been accepted yet,” he said.

The PPP-S chief said if the US didn’t meet these conditions and the government restored Nato supply, the people would come on the streets to overthrow it.

He said the ruling PPP and ANP governments in the centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had miserably failed to come up to the people’s expectations. He said people were committing suicide in large numbers due to abject poverty.

Mr Sherpao accused the government of being involved in massive corruption.

Earlier in day, he went to the house of former Hazara commissioner Riaz Khan and condoled with his family over the death and offered fateha for the deported soul.

Meanwhile, speakers at a World Biodiversity Day workshop here on Tuesday called for protection of fauna and flora to prevent growing natural calamities.

Divisional forest officer of the wildlife division, Mansehra, Iftikharuz Zaman told participants that environment was being polluted in the name of development, while elimination of wildlife was underway in the name of games.

“If people don’t protect fauna and flora, the time is not far away when natural calamities will be common taking a heavy toll of human life,” he said.

Chairman of Hazara University’s botany department Abdul Sattar Khan, head of fine arts department Mohammad Fahim, dean of the architecture department Iffat Ahmad, and Asia Shah also spoke on the occasion.

They said weaponisation in the country had destroyed wildlife and forests and thus, eliminating wildlife’s habitat.

The speaker said forests had been turned into residential colonies to the damage of environment and wildlife.

Students of Hazara University, and local colleges and schools attended the workshop in large numbers. —Correspondent