PESHAWAR: Khan Abdul Wali Khan, President of the National Awami Party, has resigned from his post and announced that he will leave for England to resume treatment of his eye, which was discontinued February last. In a Press statement . [he] stated that he had been elected Party’s President in June 1968 for two years and on completion of that period he was asked by the Central Committee to continue till the elections were held.
[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Istanbul,] More than 700 bodies have so far been recovered from the ruins of earthquake-shattered eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolian Agency said today [May 23], but added that the official number of dead was just over half this figure.
PESHAWAR: Except the People’s Party which has four MPAs in the Provincial Assembly of NWFP, all other political parties have opposed the transfer of power to the people’s representatives unless complete peace and confidence has been restored in the Eastern Wing of the country.
Of these parties the Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum Group) has been the most vocal in opposing the demand of the People’s Party. Its Chief, Khan Qayyum, has started a campaign of meeting his workers, addressing . Press conferences throughout the province. . He wants that power should not be transferred in West Pakistan while East was not mentally prepared for the change.
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