PTI received setback in district Swabi as its important local leader, senior member provincial council Mian Fahim Akbar advocate and brother of the district president, Noordad Khan Advocate announced joining JUI-F. On this occasion, ANP activists, Major Jehan Afsar Khan Tarakai (Retd), Abbas Akbar advocate, village councilor, Gohar Khan and Jehanzeb Khan alias Jan Bacha also announced joining JUI-F along with their families and associates.
They made this announcement during a workers' convention held in a religious seminary at Dagai, Swabi. Those who addressed were included renowned religious cleric Maulana Hamdullah Jan, district Ameer, candidate from NA-19, Swabi, Maulana Atta-ul-Haq Darwaish, MMA candidate from PK-46, Mahmoodul Hassan, district naib ameer JUI-F, Ashfaqullah Khan, Mian Fahim Akbar advocate and others.
Addressing the worker's convention, the MMA leaders said that religio-alliance is all set to sweep elections not only in Swabi rather also across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They said that the five-year term of the alliance was exemplary but their successors destroyed all institutions and the people of Swat and Waziristan were rendered displaced from their houses and also broke all records of corruption.
They urged the people to vote for MMA to help accomplish the objective of the establishment of Pakistan, adding that after coming into power the alliance will enforce Islamic system in the country. They further urged the electorates to vote the religio-political alliance to block the way of secular forces in Swabi in general and whole Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular.