ANP asks govt to show seriousness about talks with opposition.

NOWSHERA -- Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that government should show seriousness regarding holding talks with opposition parties.

Talking to journalists after attending a meeting of party district council in Manki Sharif, he said that government should accept that protest was right of opposition. He said that government should remove all hurdles to Azadi March and accept constitutional and democratic rights of opposition.

The ANP leader said that the role of Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak was known but opposition was still showing seriousness in holding talks with the government.

He said that ANP would participant in Azadi March. He said ANP would launch a protest movement if its workers were baton charged. If Maulana Fazlur Rehman was arrested, then Asfandyar Wali Khan would lead the march, he added.

Mian Iftikhar says protest is constitutional right of parties

Mr Hussain said that government should talk openheartedly to the opposition parties otherwise no headway could be made. 'Pervez Khattak is leading a committee on rigging in the polls but he has failed to call even a single meeting of the panel in the whole year,' he added.

The ANP leader said that Islamabad administration arrested two workers of JUI-F and imposed Section 144 despite the fact...

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