ANP President Aimal Wali Khan calls for ban on any political party inciting violence, including PTI
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and other violent political parties should be banned, according to Aimal Wali Khan, president of the Awami National Party (ANP), Dawn said.
Speaking at a press conference at the ANP central secretariat in Wali Bagh on Friday alongside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi, Khan claimed that the party founded by Imran Khan has been operating in an undemocratic and nonpolitical manner since its founding and has consistently incited violent behavior.
He urged tough measures to be taken against political groups and organizations like PTI and Tehreek-i-Labbaik that broke the law and incited violence. According to Aimal Wali Khan, the Balochistan Assembly’s ANP members supported a motion that called for the PTI to be banned.
He referred to PTI as “waste that should be disposed of” and said that, according to the Dawn story, the state had forced PTI on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the previous 12 years, but that these actions had not produced any outcomes.
According to Aimal Wali Khan, the issues that the people are facing have not been resolved by the governor’s administration. “The governor won’t resolve key issues in a single day, so the governor’s rule is no solution,” he said, adding that officials had not discussed the issue with the ANP leadership.
He discussed violent episodes in Kurram Tribal District and called the province’s “deteriorating law and order” condition a serious issue. He said that the deaths in the violence that broke out in Kurram had left the whole Pashtun nation in mourning, according to Dawn.
“Terrorism is a serious issue in our province, so we all have to sit together to find its solution,” the ANP president stated, referring to the problem as a severe one. Although terrorism is raging in our area, some people are taking advantage of it for their own purposes. “My party will continue to support people’s rights,” he said.
He emphasized that the ongoing turmoil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was a component of a plot to instigate a new war that would include the whole Pakhtun area. He urged state institutions to “wake up” and take remedial action, saying, “This issue has gone beyond the scope of the National Action Plan.”
Aimal Wali Khan issued a warning, stating that the state of law and order will deteriorate and become more unstable than it has been in the past. Additionally, he emphasized that the 18th Constitutional Amendment mentions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s entitlement to its resources and voiced support for such right.
In order to address the state of law and order in the province, Faisal Karim Kundi met with the president of the ANP earlier and invited him to a multiparty conference that would take place at the Governor’s House in Peshawar on December 5.
In an interview with reporters, Kundi referred to Bushra Bibi, the wife of PTI founder Imran Khan, as the province’s de facto chief minister. According to the Dawn article, he said that all of the PTI leaders from the Punjab province had fled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that rather than “extinguishing fire in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” Ali Amin Gandapur, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was causing disturbance in Islamabad.
