QWP holds PTI responsible for KP’s economic woes

PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao said on Friday the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had pushed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to the brink of economic collapse.A press release said he was speaking at a meeting of QWP Peshawar city chapter office-bearers at Watan Kor here.

QWP provincial General Secretary Dr Farooq Afzal, provincial Vice-Chairman Syed Fayyaz Ali Shah, provincial Information Secretary Shakeel Waheedullah Khan and others attended the meeting.

Sikandar Sherpao directed the QWP Peshawar city office-bearers to work for strengthening the party at the grassroots. The meeting also discussed the organizational matters and the efforts to rejuvenate the party.

Criticizing the provincial government, the QWP leader said the PTI had been ruling KP for the third straight term, but it had pushed the province to the brink of economic collapse due to corruption and bad governance.

Sikandar Sherpao said corruption was rampant in KP while the law and order was worsening with each passing day. He added the rulers were least bothered to take steps to tackle the issue of lawlessness. The QWP leader said it was the responsibility of the government to provide security to the people by protecting their life and property. He said the economic condition of the province had deteriorated to the extent that now the PTI government was mulling selling the land acquired for the establishment of educational institutions. The PTI, he said, had not executed any mega uplift project in the provincial capital. No attention was paid to improve the infrastructure in the provincial capital, he said, adding the people of Peshawar were facing a host of issues. Expressing concern over reports about the closure of utility stores, the QWP leader said this would render its employees jobless besides depriving the people of buying daily use commodities at subsidized rates. However, he added the loss-making government entities should be shut down to cut unnecessary expenditure.