PESHAWAR: The opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday asked their workers to reach Lahore for participation in Pakistan Democratic Movement’s Dec13 public meeting.
Speaking at a press conference at his party’s secretariat in Peshawar, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl provincial chief Senator Maulana Attaur Rehman said that the government wanted to ban its volunteer group, Ansarul Islam, to break the tempo of PDM’s activities.
“The federal government has authorised the provinces to take appropriate action against Ansarul Islam,” he said and clarified that it was a not an armed wing of the party. He said JUI-F was a registered party with the Election Commission of Pakistan and Ansarul Islam was also mentioned in the party’s constitution submitted to the commission.