[Dawn] Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday dissolved all party organizations, including central, provincial and district cabinets, in the country over the May 11 election defeat.| That seems a bit drastic... |
Mr Asfandyar said the decision top dissolve all party organizations had been made in light of the recommendations of a committee, which was formed to look into the party's defeat in the May 11 general elections.
He said the committee analysed the reasons and factors behind the party's election and found that there were two aspects of the defeat.
"One aspect was the conspiracies hatched against ANP by elements afraid of its political stand in wake of the emerging regional political scenario, while the other aspect related to the party and its government's internal weaknesses, including weakness of policy, weakness of governance and weakness of organization," he said.
The ANP chief said the fact-finding committee also criticised the mode of recruiting members into the party saying it lacked transparency and that the entire process of organization building based on it was flawed and unrepresentative.
He said ANP would soon begin fresh membership campaign, which would last two months.
He said a central election commission and five provincial election commissions would conduct the intra-party polls and Senator Haji Adeel had been made the chairman of the central election commission.