PTI to form peace committees in NWFP

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PTI to form peace committees in NWFP

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) on Sunday announced to form peace committees at union council level in the NWFP.

The proposed committees, to be named as Insaaf Markaz, will consist of people from all walks of life, PTI, NWFP, Finance Secretary Imran Shahzad told reporters at Peshawar Press Club.

He said PTI's around 60,000 registered members would voluntarily work for the committees tasked with helping police restore law and order in respective union councils.

Shahzad said peace committees would be formed first in Peshawar and then other parts of the province.

He expressed concern about growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom, auto-theft and cellphone snatching in town.

He accused police of having connived with kidnappers and car lifters.

He warned police of protests if they failed to check lawlessness within three days.

The PTI, NWFP, Finance Secretary protested against party leader Fayyaz Khalil's kidnapping bid on Warsak Road and the Manthra SHO's refusal to register a case against unidentified kidnappers. He later led a protest rally of PTI workers against the kidnapping and the SHO's rude behaviour. The protestors also shouted slogans against the ANP-PPPP government in the NWFP, saying the rulers have failed to solve their socio-economic problems.

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