MARDAN: Awami National Party Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Friday said the nation should get united against terrorists and their handlers to ensure peace in the country.

Addressing a public meeting in Guli Bagh area, Hoti said ANP leaders was declared traitors in the past for demanding a war against terrorists but currently, everyone was making the same demand.

`We always insisted the war against terrorism is the war of foreign forces and instead, it is our own war and the war of our survival. Now, the time has proved our stand right,` he said.

The ANP leader asked the nation to forgeunity against the `enemies of humanity` and said it was `now or never` situation for action against terrorists.

He said the country would have not suffered so much damage had the national leadership decided about an effective clampdown on terrorists earlier.

Hoti said PTI had got public mandate to rule Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by deceiving the people of the province in elections by the slogan of change.

He said ANP would return to power after winning the next elections.

The ANP leader said Imran Khan was not sincere with the people and instead, he wanted to become the country`s prime minister `at all costs.

He said the PTI chief had forgotten the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and was wasting his energies to grab power by the back door.

Hoti said education minister Mohammad Atif Khan belonged to Mardan district but he had failed to build even a single classroom in a local primary school during the last one and a half years rule.On the occasion, Pakistan People`s Party activists, including Shah Jehan, Ishfaq Khan and Ikram Khan, along with family members and friends announced they`d joined ANP and had complete confidence in the party leadership.

Meanwhile, the University of Technology Malaysia (UoTM) has shown interest in establishing an engineering department at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM).

The development came during the visit of a UoTM delegation to the AWKUM campus on Friday.

The delegation comprised dean of the mechanical engineering faculty Professor Nasir Tamin and senior lecturer Dr Mohammad Adil Khattak.

The visitors met Vice Chancellor Professor Ihsan Ali, who briefed them about the proposed development of various departments and construction of academic blocks.

They later visited the excavation site on campus and assured the management of their university`s cooperation and support for academic projects.