PESHAWAR: Co-Chairman PPP and former President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday vowed that he would continue to struggle for FATA merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a public meeting in Mardan, Asif Zardari said PPP was the party of poor people as it had, during its regime, provided employment opportunities to them. He said it was during the government of the PPP that the national flag was hoisted in Swat when militants had occupied the valley.

The former President also took a dig at Imran Khan. “He calls himself a leader of youth. How can he be a leader of youth as he is older than me.

Bilawal is the leader of the young people,” he said, referring to his son and PPP chairman.

The PPP leader also dismissed the notion that Khan was a true Pathan.

“A captain has come who thinks he is a Pakhtun. He writes Khan after his name. No one knows him here,” he told the crowd in Mardan.

“He calls himself a Pathan, but for that first he need to speak

Pashto,” he added.

Later, Asif Ali Zardari visited Thana, Malakand Agency, where he offered fateha for the departed soul of the wife of the former federal minister Lal Mohammad Khan. (APP)