Militancy: Police check post attack condemned

ANP leader said that anti-Pakistan forces are behind terrorist attacks.

ISLAMABAD: Senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader Afrasiyab Khattak has strongly condemned the attack on a police check post on Wednesday in Peshawar. Talking to Radio Pakistan on Thursday, he strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the check post in Sango Mehra area near Peshawar, in which two police officials were killed and five others injured.  He said that anti-Pakistan forces are behind terrorist attacks and hoped that the Pakistan army will soon clear tribal areas from terrorists. Afrasiyab added that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government is taking many security measures to prevent terrorist attacks in the province particularly in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 20^th, 2011.