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  • Dec 11th, 2012
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Awami National Party die-hard leaders from Qambarkhel Teshil of Bara, Khyber Agency along with other workers announced to join Jamaat-i-Islami, here on Monday. Addressing at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club, ANP president from Qambarkhel, Javed Afridi and General Secretary Haji Sabir Afridi said that they had decided to join Jamaat-i-Islami owing to poor performance of the ruling ANP government in the province.

Flanked by Faisal Shah Afridi, JI Ameer Khyber Agency and others leaders from Tehsil Bara, Javed Afridi said the government had completely failed to resolve the problems of tribal people during last four and half years. He said that a large number of people had been displaced due to excessive military operations and faced with desperate situation at their makeshift IDPs camps.

While speaking on the occasion, Shah Faisal Afridi said the leaders of ANP are being frustrated by poor performance of their party and joining the JI, which has become a most popular political party in the Khyber Agency. "JI will clean sweep in upcoming general elections in the Khyber Agency", he claimed.

He strongly condemned the manhandling and apprehension of innocent tribal people displaced by military operations, demanded of the government to take immediate notice of police maltreatment against the IDPs in settled areas. "JI will take innocent tribesmen at the par with other citizen of the country if the people voted them to power," he vowed.

Despite huge masses exodus from Bara, he said that the government had failed to provide adequate basic necessities of life at the temporary shelter facility. He criticised that the so-called well-wishers of Pakhtuns, and tribal people, did nothing practical to ease their miseries. He claimed the JI will resolve the problems of tribesmen, if elected in the next general election, especially rehabilitation and reconstruction would be top agenda of his party.

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