QWP denounces delimitation of constituencies

QWP chief says ECP did not take political parties into confidence

PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP)Chairman  Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has outrightly rejected the delimitation of the constituencies, which has created a lot of problems for the people and political parties, saying that it had also created difficulties for the general election.

He said this while addressing a press conference in Watan Kor Peshawar, wherein Nawabzada Wahab Khan from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) along with scores of his supporters announced to join QWP. The new candidates reposed confidence in the dynamic leadership of Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao.



He said that the QWP had long struggled for the welfare of the people of the province that’s why it is gaining popularity among the masses.

Aftab Sherpao believed that the new candidates would be a great addition to the party.

Sherpao slammed the election commission stating that it had not taken the political parties into confidence which would badly affect their election campaign and mobilisation of masses in the process. He said that the delimitation of the constituencies in a short time would create complications and the political parties would face several challenges while managing the general election.

He said that in the senate election horse trading had polluted the political affairs and it had not been probed, so the people responsible were never held accountable. He said that each party’s political maneuvering to have their own representative members as chairman or deputy chairman in senate had become like a of tug of war, saying that such issues should be politically settled, such a behaviour as adopted in the senate election would negatively affect the national elections.

Sherpao criticised the PTI provincial led government for frequent changes in design of the ongoing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2018.