SWABI: Tobacco growers will hold a convention here today (Thursday) to present a charter of demands to the government and tobacco companies. The function will be held at the playground of the Swabi school.

It is learnt that the growers would launch a protest campaign if their demands were not met. Asad Qaiser, Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, would be the chief guest on the occasion.

Leaders of the Kashthkar Coordination Council (KCC) told this correspondent that the main objective of the gathering was to mal
`We also want to create unity among the farmers because in the past the companies adopted divide and rule policy,` said KCC`s general secretary Liaqat Yousufzai. Correspondent