PML-N, PPP refuse to sign APC declaration

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) refused to sign a declaration adopted by an All Parties Conference (APC) that among other things demanded immediate halt to all military operations and described terrorism, extremism, and lawlessness as an outcome of poor government policies.

- Tariq Butt

The APC convened in the federal capital by the Awami National Party was attended by all major political parties.

The delegates of the PML-N and PPP including Irfan Siddiqui and Nayyar Bokhari told the host that the view expressed by him in the APC’s communique were his own and they did not subscribe to them. They said that they would sign the declaration.

The host, ANP chief Aimal Wali Khan, told the APC that there are people in Waziristan - a district that has witnessed a number of military operations in the past two decades - who have not returned home for 1 years. He said such a situation could not be called development.

He said his party is not against Punjab and is pro-Pakistan.