Pabbi, Awami National Party provincial president Senator Afrasiab Khattak has said that fight against terrorism will continue till the establishment of complete peace in the province.

"Killings of our children will not deviate us from our mission of eliminating terrorists.

It will rather enhance our resolve to speed up our battle against the enemies of the entire nation," he said on the occasion of the funeral of Mian Rashid Hussain here in Pabbi village on Sunday.

Mian Rashid Hussain, the lone son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, was killed by terrorists on Saturday.

Senator Khattak said that the entire nation was united against militancy and they would soon be eradicated from the province. The terrorists, he said, were on the run because the government had started aggressive campaign against them.

Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmad Bilour also visited the residence of Mian Iftikhar and vowed that ANP would not allow anyone to take law into his hands.

Senior Provincial Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour said on the occasion that activists and leaders of ANP rendered countless sacrifices while fighting against militancy. “Martyrdom of our children strengthens our campaign to wipe out terrorists from the province and allow Pakhtuns to live in peace,” he told journalists.

President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, governor Owais Ahmad Ghani, former chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Asma Jehangir, former president Pervez Musharraf and the chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan condemned the killing of Mian Rashid and urged the people to stand up against militancy.

They appreciated the courage and bravery shown by the ANP and especially Mian Iftikhar Hussain. They said that militancy was a problem of the whole world. They lauded ANP for successful military operation in Malakand.

Condoling with Mian Iftikhar by telephone, they condemned the brutal murder of his son. “His blood would not go waste,” they said.

They also stressed the need for taking united stand against militancy and assisting the ANP-led provincial government to help it in coping with the wave of terrorism.