PESHAWAR: The tripartite alliance of the Awami National Party (ANP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is holding a strike in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) against the alleged rigging and mismanagement in the local bodies elections.
The alliance has demanded the provincial government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) along with its allies Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Awami Jamhoori Ittehad Pakistan (AJIP) to quit the government and conduct free and fair general elections and local government elections under a caretaker government.
The political activists of the tripartite alliance have started flocking at different spots in the city from where they will gather to hold a joint rally.
PHOTO: SOHAIL KHATTAK/THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
Activists in the Saddar area took to loudspeakers and ordered businessmen to close down their shops and businesses.
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Following the moot held at the Chief Minister House on Tuesday to parlay talks into actionable results, the government sent a delegation comprising cabinet members Inayatullah Khan, Shahram Khan Tarakai, Atif Khan and Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani to Bacha Khan Markaz late in the evening, to convince Awami National Party, Pakistan Peoples Party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl to call the protest off.
However, negotiations failed. Talking to the media, alliance president Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the opposition is prepared to continue sit-ins for months at length.
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Protest route
PK-I – Government College Chowk
PK-II – Chowk Yadgar
PK-III – Namak Mandi and Qissa Khwani Bazaar
PK-IV –Fawara Chowk
PK-V and PK-VI – University Road
PK-VII – Warsak Road
PK-VIII – Charsadda Road and Bacha Khan Chowk
PK-IX – Dalazak Road
PK-X and PK-XI – Kohat Road and Dabgari Garden
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