The APC is likely to be attended by 26 political parties from across the country.
SHABQADAR/ PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has announced four of its senior leaders will attend the Awami National Party’s (ANP) all-parties conference (APC) today (Thursday) in Islamabad.
JUI-F spokesperson Haji Abdul Jalil Jan said his party has nominated former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) chief minister and opposition leader Akram Khan Durrani, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Maulana Attaur Rehman and Mufti Abdul Shakoor to represent the party at the conference. However, Jan refused to comment on what agenda the party will try to push at the gathering.
The APC is likely to be attended by 26 political parties from across the country. The ANP had called the conference to form a political consensus on talks with the Taliban after the assassination of senior minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour in Peshawar.
Earlier, the JUI-F had refused to attend the meeting saying that it was not willing to share the ANP’s ‘sins’ of the past five years. However, the parties came to an agreement following talks between ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
On Monday, chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Maulana Samiullah Haq, met ANP leaders and agreed to attend the conference as well.
The one party not attending the APC is the Jamaat-e- Islami (JI). In a statement issued on Monday, JI leader Liaqat Baloch accused the ANP for being silent over the killings of Pukhtuns.
Baloch alleged ANP has acted as an accomplice in drone attacks and terrorism in the province.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ