Pre-poll alliance with PPP possible: ANP

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that Awami National Party and Pakistan People’s Party enjoy very cordial relations in the centre and any pre- or post-poll alliance is possible between the two parties. He was talking to media persons at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday. New developments in politics are possible any time, he said while commenting on a statement of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PPP president Anwar Saifullah Khan that his party would avoid alliance with ANP and contest coming elections on its own. Mr Hussain said that President Asif Ali Zardari had been consulting ANP president Asfandyar Wali Khan while taking any decision on any important and relevant issue. About the local government ordinance recently approved by Sindh Assembly, the minister said that the ANP had opposed the ordinance and its MPA resigned as minister and preferred to sit on the opposition benches. Commenting on the scheduled peace march of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf to South Waziristan Agency, Mr Hussain said that it was a bold step taken by PTI chairman Imran Khan to hold a rally in the restive tribal region. However, he said that the party had also invited foreign media and members of civil society organisations and it was rather very difficult to provide them security.