PPP leader flays KP govt for failing to launch uplift schemes

PESHAWAR: Formers senior provincial minister and provincial president of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Rahimdad Khanon Saturday claimed that over Rs70 billion had lapsed during the last financial year due to the failure of the provincial government to initiate development projects in the province.
Speaking at a luncheon ceremony that he hosted for the newly-elected office-bearers of the Peshawar Press Club, he said the provincial government had no planning whatsoever for the development of the province.
He also criticised the federal government for its attitude towards Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying the Centre was ignoring the province that is playing the role of frontline federating unit in the ongoing fight against the militancy. Rahimdad Khan said that dozens of industrial units had been closed down in the province due loadshedding but so far no mega power generation project had been completed in the province.
He criticised the federal government for reducing the prices of petroleum products (POL) in “installments”, saying the prices of the POL had dropped in the international market at once, but the government was reducing the same in bits and pieces.
PPP provincial president Khanzada Khan, former minister and provincial secretary information of the party, Liaqat Shabab, and Akbar Khan were also present on the occasion.
Khanzada Khan criticised the federal government for “changing” the original plan of Pak-China Economic Corridor, saying the federal government had planned to keep Khyber Pakhtunkhwa underdeveloped.