PESHAWAR: Calling for the need for forging unity among all the Pakhtun nationalist forces, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) leader and former senior minister Sikandar Sherpao said on Saturday that his party was striving to unite the Pakhtuns and address the challenges they were facing.According to a statement issued here, the QWP leader expressed these views during his separate meetings with Mazdoor Kissan Party leader Afzal Shah Khamosh and National Party leader Mukhtiar Bacha at their respective residences in Charsadda and Peshawar.Asad Afridi Advocate of QWP, Dr Sarfaraz of National Party and Gul Haider, Fazle Raziq Advocate and Sher Bahadar of Mazdoor Kissan Party were present on the occasion.The meetings were held as part of the QWP’s efforts to forge unity among the Pakhtuns and strive for the resolution of their problems. The leaders of the both the parties assured the QWP leadership of their support to help bring the Pakhtuns out of the crisis-like situation.Sikandar Sherpao said that in the prevailing situation there was a dire need for forging unity among the Pakhtuns. “We are committed to making efforts for forging unity among the Pakhtuns, who have faced a host of challenges,” he maintained.Criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government, the QWP leader said those who had claimed to bring about a change had forgotten the Pakhtuns after reaching the corridors of power.“The harbingers of change have compounded the problems of the people from the downtrodden segments of the society,” he said, adding the people had voted for the PTI in the hope that it would provide relief to them but the rulers have dashed their hopes through their anti-masses policies.Failing to come up to the expectations of the people, Sikandar Sherpao said the government hiked electricity and gas tariffs and raised the prices of life-saving drugs.
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