Those who attended the APC convened by Jamaat-e-Islami included Senator Ahmad Hassan, Syed Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha, Sahibzada Sanaullah MPAs (PPP), Junaid Akbar MNA, Shakeel Khan, Haider Ali (PTI), Syed Jaffar Shah (ANP), Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan (JUI-F), Bakht Baidar (QWP), Senator Nisar , Dr Ibadullah MNA (PML-N), Sahibzada Tariqullah, Sahibzada Mohammad Yaqub, Sher Akbar Khan MNAs (JI), Mohammad Ali, Aizaz-ul-Mulk, Senior KP Minister Inayatullah, Finance Minister Muzaffar Said, Habib-ur-Rehman, Ayesha Syed MNA (JI), district, tehsil nazims and others.
Announcing the joint declaration of the APC announced by JI chief Senator Siraj-ul-Haq said that the route also provide easy and shortest access to Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics (CARs) and demanded completion of work on Lowari Tunnel on war footing and inclusion of Malakand Tunnel in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of next federal budget.
He termed CPEC the second largest and important project of Pakistan after its nuclear programme and asked federal government to avoid making it controversial by limiting it to specific segment and area of the country.
The APC, he said, has constituted a 27-member committee headed by him to call on Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to discuss problems and proposals highlighted by the elected public representatives of the region and include their declaration in the coming national and provincial budgets.
The second committee constituted by the meeting will take up the issue of the welfare of the terrorism affected families of Malakand Division with both federal and provincial governments.
The participants of the APC joined hands for waging joint struggle for the resolution of the problems faced by residents of Malakand Division. They vowed that they will not tolerate those NGOs which are working against the culture and security of the country and those serving the people will be encouraged and supported.