Probe launched into allegations against PTI lawmakers

MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday launched an investigation into corruption allegations levelled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central vice president Azam Khan Swati against the party lawmakers last week.

“Though party workers are annoyed over Swati’s allegations of corruption against Mansehra’s lawmakers, the provincial president of PTI Junaid Akbar, Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, and his assistant Musaddaq Abbasi will investigate the matter,” Kamal Saleem Swati, the provincial deputy president of PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told a presser at the press club.

Flanked by district president Sardar Khan and other office bearers, he said that conspiracies had been hatched to divide the party since the arrest of party founder Imran Khan, and such baseless allegations were being made.

Kamal Saleem Swati said KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati, who is also from Mansehra, had discussed these allegations with PTI Junaid Akbar, Ali Amin Gandapur, and Musaddaq Abbasi, seeking an investigation into the charges.

He said that Mansehra’s gravity water supply scheme, for which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had recently sanctioned a soft loan of $41 million, was a provincial government project.The PTI leader stated that the KP government would contribute its share of 52 percent and would pay 2 percent interest on the loan approved by Saudi Arabia.

“A 54-kilometer-long pipeline will be laid to fetch water from its source in the Neeli Nadi stream in Kaghan Valley, and engineers from the Communication and Works Department have recently visited the site,” Swati added.