ANP celebrates K-P approval from Senate

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party’s ministers and workers started celebrations on Thursday after the Senate approved to rename NWFP to Pakhtoonkhwa.During celebrations in Peshawar some party activists also fired aerial shots and danced to the beat of drums. The women activists also celebrated the renaming of the province and distributed sweets among the activists. Talking to DawnNews, NWFP Minister for Sports and Culture Aqil Shah said Pakhtoons have finally got an identity after nearly a century long struggle. He said the renaming of the province was a genuine demand of ANP which was finally fulfilled.Quite the contrast to the real situation, Shah said ANP central leadership had asked all the party activists not to celebrate the new name because of violence and killing of seven people in Hazara division.—