ISLAMABAD: Ruling Coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) would
decide on August 28 on its Sindh Chapter’s request seeking central
leadership’s permission to quit the government.
ANP Information
Secretary Zahid Khan confirmed to Online that meeting of the party’s
president consultative body was called in to consider the situation in
Sindh and the over all political scenario in the country.
The
body would meet under leadership of Asfandiyar Wali in Peshawar that
would also held deliberations on important issues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
and parts of the country.
The sources inside ANP said that the
party’s chapter in Sindh was seeking permission of the central
leadership of the Party to part ways with the government in Sindh. “But
we clearly told them that we cannot decide it, the decision would be
taken by consultative body or central executive committee,” the sources
added.
Head of ANP in Sindh Shahi Syed had sought a go-ahead
from the central leadership to part ways with the government after it
was ignored while reverting to the local government system of military
ruler Pervez Musharraf in 2001.
A couple of days ago the Acting
Central President of ANP Bushra Gohar had called in emergency meeting
at the Parliament House endorsing the position taken by the party’s
Sindh chapter.
The party’s Sindh chapter had the mandate to
stop its only minister for working after the developments, but the
decision of quitting the provincial government was subject to approval
of the CEC and its meeting was delayed as President of the party
Asfandiyar Wali was in Germany.
Even the central leadership of ANP had reservations regarding 2001 local government system without necessary amendments.
The
ANP sources said that matter of renaming the Peshawar International
Airport would also come under consideration. It is pertinent to mention
that ANP want to rename it as Bacha Khan International Airport. Online
