PESHAWAR, Nov 6: The Awami National Party (ANP) has expressed concern over what it calls the ill-conceived policies pursued by successive governments and asked the rulers to revisit the same.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, ANP provincial organising committee chairman Bashir Khan Matta said that the country was faced with confusing and embarrassing situation in the aftermath of drones attack in which Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud was killed. It brought embracement to the nation, he added.

`There is an urgent need to revisit the basic policies, which Pakistan pursued for a long time without calculating their cost and likely fallout,` he said.

Mr Matta said that the country was likely to face similar embarrassments in the future if the policies were not revisited. `The basic requirement is to pursue a policy, which accords with the intrinsic ground realities of the country,` he added.

Moved by misdirectedemotionalism and myopic dreams and desires, the country was led to follow ambitions that didn`t accord exactly with its geo-politic situation and material realities, the ANP leader said.

He said that said that a multi-ethnic state with fair resource, the core policy of the country should have been informed by the necessity of peace, progress and tranquility at home.

`When this element was missing from the country`s policies in the early seventies, it saw the sad event of the separation of the eastern wing, which now exists as Bangladesh,` Mr Matta said.

He said that no lesson was learnt and the rulers once more started pursuing the policies, which were inadvisable and full of troubles.

`What, in effect, is required is not governance but statesmanship on the part of those, who want to be in the driver`s seat while devising our root policies. The question is will Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan provide this statesmanship?` the ANP leader questioned.