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Off The Record – 15 October 2009

Submitted by admin on October 15, 2009 – 11:58 amOne Comment

Senator Zahid Khan ANP, Khalid Sumroo, Abid Shar Ali PMl-N and Imtiaz Safdar Warrach PPP in fresh episode with Kashif Abbasi.

http://mastichoice.com/OffTheRecord15oct2009.flv

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afzaalkhan says:

October 17, 2009 at 12:33 am

Qts to ANP if zia policies are the reason why didn’t u do nething to change them since u been part of coalition govt in one form or another?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awami_National_Party

In 1986, the National Democratic Party merged with several other progressive political and nationalist groups to form the Awami National Party. Abdul Wali Khan was elected as its president and Sindhi nationalist Rasul Bakh Palijo was elected its secretary general. The party from 1986-1988 was a member of the Movement for Restoration of Democracy.

The party formed a coalition government with the People’s Party in NWFP and Islamabad after the 1988 election. This alliance collapsed in 1989 after differences cropped up between the two parties. After the election of Nawaz Sharif to power after the 1990 elections the ANP again formed a coalition with former rivals Pakistan Muslim League. This alliance proved longer lasting, surviving till 1998 when it collapsed over differences over Kalabagh Dam and renaming the province Pakhtunkhwa. The party then joined the Grand Democratic Alliance, campaigning against the increasingly dictatorial Nawaz Sharif government’s policies. After Nawaz Sharif’s overthrow by Pervaiz Musharraf, the party stayed an active member of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, until the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, when it left the alliance over supporting the US ouster of the Taliban. In the 2002 elections the party struck up an alliance with the People’s party however both parties were electorally routed in NWFP by the religio-political alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) riding on a wave of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan.[1]

In the 2008 elections the party contested on its own and won a plurality of votes in NWFP as well as winning in Balochistan for the first time in 15 years and Karachi for the first time. It subsequently formed a government in NWFP and is supporting the PPP government in the centre and other provinces.[2]

The strongholds of ANP are in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan, particularly in the Peshawar valley of the North-West Frontier Province, while Karachi hosts one of the largest Pashtun populations in the world with 4.0 million Pastuns live in Karachi. In the 2008 election, the ANP won two Sindh assembly seats in Karachi.[20]

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