Corrupt politicians damaged institutions: KP CM

NOWSHERA: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said on Friday that corrupt politicians had damaged the state institutions to promote their own interests.

Speaking at a public meeting in Dak Besud area, he said that plunderers of national resources never cared about the people. District Nazim Liaqat Khattak, Member National Assembly Imran Khattak, Member Provincial Assembly Mian Khaliqur Rehman and others also spoke on the occasion.

Activists of Awami National Party (ANP) joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on the occasion. Without naming anyone, Pervez Khattak said these vested interests only protected and served own interest.

“To weaken the state institutions and plunder national wealth is their prime objective. For this purpose these so-called politicians join politics and form political parties,” he added. The chief minister said a handful of people had occupied the national resources and looted the country.

He said there was no one to challenge and offer resistance to such people. “They politicised and damaged the state institutions and never bothered to pay any heed to the plight of the poor people,” he added.

Pervez Khattak maintained that the PTI chief Imran Khan challenged this mafia and the people were looking toward him to solve their problems and pull the country out of the prevailing crises.

About the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, the chief minister said the provincial government was clearing the mess created by the successive governments in the last 70-years. He asked as to why the people were joining the PTI in droves, and said that they were doing so because the party-led government really cared for them.

The chief minister said the political parties had deceived the people through various slogans. He said the people were fed up with these parties and had lost confidence in the politicians and the system, adding the PTI-led government revamped the faulty system and restored public confidence in the state institutions.