[DAWN] SWABI: Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
district president Ameer Rehman, who contested election from PK-47, Swabi-V, and was booked for opening fire on Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
workers, has secured bail before arrest, party workers said on Monday.
When contacted, Mr Rehman told Dawn that he had been granted bail before arrest by a local court in the murder case registered against him in Kalu Khan cop shoppe.
Mr Rehman and his gunman, Jan Mohammad, were booked in the alleged murder case when the ANP workers clashed with PTI workers on the polling day outside Binzara polling station in Karnal Sher Kili.
As a result, one person was killed and three were maimed.
Mukhtiar Khan, the injured father of the killed Shahzeb Khan, had lodged an FIR, alleging that Mr Rehman and his gunman had opened fire on them, and as result his son was killed on the spot. The ANP leader’s gunman has also managed to get bail before arrest.
The next hearing of the case is fixed for Tuesday (today), and in case his bail before arrest is not confirmed Mr Rehman would be tossed in the slammer
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Insiders in both PTI and ANP said the political rivalry between Mr Rehman and Shahram Khan Tarakai, former provincial health minister and MPA-elect of PTI, which dates back to 2005, would only linger on.
They said rivalry between the two families reached its peak after the latest killing incident because the dear departed Shahzeb and his injured father were staunch supporters of Shahram Tarakai.
They said Mr Shahram was standing by Mukhtiar because he had lost a young son who completed his BS engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
 ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
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