KP suffers as ruling PTI busy in protests: Hoti

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) provincial president Ameer Haider Hoti has said on Friday that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was facing financial problems while the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was busy in politics of agitations.

Speaking at a workers convention here, the nationalist leader advised the PTI chief Imran Khan to focus his energies on the development and welfare of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa instead of sealing cities.

He said that the Supreme Court of Pakistan had issued notice to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the Panama Leaks revelations and advised the PTI chief to wait for the court decision if he really wanted accountability of the primer.

He said that Imran Khan was impatient to become prime minister and wanted to snatch the slot from Nawaz Sharif but on the other hand Nawaz Sharif was ready to do all in his power to save his chair. “There is a power struggle between the PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,” he added.

He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was suffering in the fight for Islamabad. He said the province was facing acute financial problems, adding there would be no money in the government exchequer to pay the salaries if the situation was not rectified.

Ameer Haider Hoti said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was ignored in the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).He added that the ANP had launched a protest campaign against the discrimination of the province in the fortune changer project but canceled the campaign due to acceleration in the hostility with India and war-like situation between the two countries.

The ANP leader said that Imran Khan did not care for the country and its survival and announced protest despite the increasing hostility with India. He demanded the immediate merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and census in the country.