Daily Times

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan on Wednesday criticized the unjust distribution of projects of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) saying that ANP will stage protest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Sindh and FATA against the discrimination in the distribution of projects on October 4, 2016.

He was addressing a press conference here at the Bacha Khan Markaz. The ANP central core committee representatives were all present in the gathering, which had attracted a number of the party’s supporters from Peshawar, Charsadda and Mardan.

Asfandyar said that ANP had given the most sacrifices in the war against terrorism.

He said that the National Action Plan (NAP) is a complete strategy but it was not implemented in its true spirits to stem out terrorism from the country. “My forefathers had rendered more sacrifices in the fight for independence compared to the forefathers of Chaudhry Nissar Ali Khan,” Asfandyar Ali Khan told the audience.

Asfandyar Wali Khan also said that the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) should be given due shares in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). “FATA should also get benefit from the CPEC as it has suffered the most in the war against terrorism. The FATA reforms bill should also be passed from the National Assembly at its urgent. It should not be put alongside 15 other reports about FATA that are getting rusted in closed drawers,” he added.

The ANP leader also hit hard at the foreign policy of Pakistan, claiming that it had failed miserably and it was the need of the hour that the foreign policy be revisited. “The internal and external policies of the federal government can’t cater for the modern day challenges. The government needs to revisit its internal and external policies if it want to succeed in facing these challenges,” he said.