Changes in KPEC act termed ineffective

NOWSHERA: Amir Muqam, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and advisor to the prime minister, on Friday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government made the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) ineffective by making amendments to the 2014 act.

He was speaking at a public rally after inaugurating the district office of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in Nowshera Cantonment.Amir Muqam alleged that the PTI government had made amendments to the KPEC act to save the skin of its ministers and leaders. “The government amended the law of the KPEC after it started tightening the noose around the chief minister, ministers and bureaucracy,” Amir Muqam said.

He alleged that the PTI had set up the KPEC to victimise its political opponents.Criticising PTI head Imran Khan, he said, “He (Imran) had claimed that the KPEC would hold every public office holder from a low scale government servant to the chief minister accountable. Now they have rendered it ineffective and brought it under the chief minister by making amendments to the KPEC act,” he stressed.

He said the people were mature and cannot be deceived by hollow slogans. “The PTI has failed to carry out transparency in the KPEC affairs. It has been exposed by the former director general of the commission through his resignation and statements to the media,” he pointed out.

He asked Imran Khan to tender an apology to the nation in general and people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular for his failure to honour the commitments he made with them during the election campaign.

He said the PTI-led provincial government couldn’t deliver and the local government system of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was another failed exercise. He added that the provincial government didn’t devolve the power to the local bodies’ representatives.

Amir Muqam said the PTI had failed to make a new Khyber Pakhtunkhwa let alone making a new Pakistan. “People feel no change in the nearly three year rule of the PTI in the province,” he contended.

He said the PTI caused huge damages to the country by staging a sit-in in Islamabad which resulted in the postponement of the Chinese president’s planned visit to Pakistan.

He announced setting up of new offices of Nadra in Jehangira and Akora Khattak and directed making operational the closed office of Nadra in Pabbi.