PESHAWAR: A joint protest rally by the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Awami National Party (ANP) against the delay in the implementation of Fata reforms, especially the merger of the region with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is en route to Islamabad from Peshawar.

The protesters, including political activists from the tribal areas, left from the Peshawar toll plaza.

"The participants of the rally will stage a sit-in at Islamabad Press Club, and if the government does not take notice on our first sit-in, then the next sit-in will be held at D Chowk," informed senior ANP leader Mian Iftikhar Hussain.

Hussain said that the joint-rally demands federal government to immediately abolish the FCR law, adding that if their demands are not accepted, the sit-in can be prolonged.

KP Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar, former federal minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, former provincial minister Aqil Shah, Haroon Bilour and MNA Alhaj Shahji Gul are participants in the rally.

Earlier, before the arrival of PTI leaders and activists, the ANP workers shouted slogans against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and the provincial government.