CM laments Centre’s lousy response to CPEC

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak Tuesday said that the federal government neither bothered to consider the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s resolutions nor it responded to provincial government’s letter regarding China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

He lamented that such attitude on part of the federal government was not only exacerbating the concerns of the political parties but also compelling the KP government to take tougher steps for securing rights of the province that associated with CPEC and other issues.

Speaking at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s parliamentary party meeting chaired by the PTI Chairman Imran Khan in Islamabad, the chief minister said that his province was also being deprived of its due share in electricity and net hydel profit which had reached to the extent of Rs120 billion.

The chief minister apprised the meeting of the latest situation of the KP government affairs with the federal government particularly those related to CPEC, outstanding dues of Net Hydel Power profit, the power loadshedding, use of surplus water of KP, Chashma Right Bank Canal and certain other projects.

He told that the federal government was not only using delaying tactics in provision of rights of the people of KP in connection with these affairs and projects but also trying to conceal facts about them.

Pervez Khattak said that All Parties Conferences held by certain political parties of KP and Balochistan also expressed strong reservations on CPEC and demanded of the federal government to do away with these concerns but they also had not received any satisfactory response.

He revealed that certain other facilities linked with the Eastern Route of CPEC have come to light and they included establishment of huge new cities, a new world of Information Technology and economic zones.