ISLAMABAD: Rebutting the reports regarding changing of its stance
about MQM published in section of print media, ANP has warned that it
can think over other options if the party rejoins the government.
In
an exclusive chat with Online, Awami National Party (ANP) Information
Secretary Senator Zahid Khan Friday said that his party’s history is
known to all that most of the time it took the decisions which was
certainly not beneficial to it but ANP never compromised on principles.
“It is ANP’s principled decision that rejoining of MQM would not
be acceptable before probe into three serious allegations against it,
that are, conspiracies against the state, its letter to the UK’s Prime
Minister, and their policies regarding Pakhtuns in Karachi,” He
candidly said.
He warned that ANP can consider other options
including decision regarding its coalition and partnership in the
ruling parties if any step in contradiction with its principle stance
becomes evident. “Whenever MQM would rejoin the government we can think
over other options,” he said.
He said that elders and
predecessor of his party’s leadership faced blames like Kafir, and
traitor but never compromised on principles. “They were arrested and
put behind bars, the party suffered but always stood on principles,” he
added.
The ANP information secretary said that his party
leadership is following the footsteps of its elders and would never
compromise its principles.
He also rebutted the report
published by a section of print media that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief
Minister Ameer Haider Hoti was willing for forgetting the issues with
MQM, or he has contacted President Asif Ali Zardari for reconciliation.
“First of all we have no such issues with MQM, nor ANP has
bitterness with it that needs reconciliation, so for what we remove
bitterness if we don’t have at all,” Khan said.
Zahid Khan said
that the ANP has a principle stand that has to be acted upon and it
never mean bitterness. To a question, he said that his party is surely
struggling for peace in Karachi and always wished tranquility in the
metro polis at earliest as it always supported unbiased operation even
if ANP worker becomes its victim.
The ANP leader said that ANP
plays politics of masses and talk about people. It brought its case to
the court of law and nothing could be said until final decision.
He
called upon the media to be careful while reporting as it becomes a
matter of integrity which can harm the credibility of an organization,
paper or TV.
When his attention was drawn toward the prime
minister statements saying that MQM was ever part of the government and
its members resignations were never accepted, he said that is what the
prime minister says and refused to comment on it. “It is what he (prime
minister) said I am not commenting on that but I made clear my party’s
principled stand,” Khan said. Online
