Ink it again: ANP Nowshera announces Islamabad sit-in

Say they will protest until their demands are met

NOWSHERA:

Calling for re-polling in PK-13, Nowshera-II, Awami National Party Nowshera chapter has announced it will hold a sit-in in Islamabad.

“We will protest until our demands are accepted,” said ANP leader Shahid Khattak while leaving for the federal capital on Saturday. Shahid rejected LG results in the aforementioned constituency and called for “fair, impartial and transparent” re-polls.

Levelling accusations against Chief Minister Pervez Khattak – who is also a political arch-rival – Shahid said the CM manipulated fake votes in his brother’s favour at a polling station in Manki Sharif. “Pervez assigned electoral duties to his own men so his brother’s victory could be ensured,” he said. He said neutral polling officials should conduct the re-polls under the watchful eye of law-enforcement agencies. “In the first phase we will protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan. Then we will move to the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister House,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 7^th, 2015.