ANP-convened 'all parties conference underway

PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) convened 'All Parties Conference' (APC) is underway in Islamabad, Geo News reported.

"We have by and large received a positive response from almost all the political schools of thought", said a senior ANP leader.

According to sources, the moot, to be attended by at least 26 parties, will also focus on evolving a common strategy to face the scourge of terrorism, however Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamat-e-Islami (JI)have counted themselves out of the APC.

This APC, a brainchild of ANP, was in fact launched following the assassination of senior ANP leader and provincial minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour in December 2012.

The Taliban had claimed the responsibility of the suicide he was killed in.