Opposition trying to forge grand alliance against PTI: Khattak

NOWSHERA: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said on Saturday that the performance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had unnerved the opposition parties and were trying to forge a grand alliance against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

He was speaking at a public meeting at Nowshera Kalan playground here. Several activists of the Awami National Party (ANP) joined the PTI on the occasion.

Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mian Jamsheduddin Kakakhel, District Nazim Liaqat Khattak, MNA Imran Khattak and others were present on the occasion.

Pervez Khattak said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan People’s Party and other parties were afraid of the PTI and trying to forge an alliance. “The PTI is the popular party and even the combined opposition cannot defeat it in the next general election,” he claimed.

He said that future belonged to the PTI and hoped the party would clean sweep the 2018 general election.

He said the PTI had clean and honest leadership that could steer the county out of the prevailing crises. He urged the people to reject the old, tested and traditional politicians in the next general elections and choose honest and clean leadership to solve their problems.

Criticising the ANP for its criticism of the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, the chief minister said the ANP-led coalition government had promoted corruption.

“The ANP should tell the people who is Masoom Shah, what was his role and why he returned Rs250 million to the National Accountability Bureau,” he went on to say.

Pervez Khattak said that the ANP provincial president, Ameer Haider Hoti, was visiting Nowshera regularly as if he had special feelings and attachment to the people of the district. “When he (Haider) was chief minister I informed him about the floods devastation in Nowshera but he ignored it and changed the topic,” he claimed.

He said the PTI streamlined and depoliticised the government institutions, eliminated corruption, upheld merit, revamped old patwari and thana culture and was establishing economic zones to create new employment opportunities for youth.