CM asked to resign for making false promises about CPEC

PESHAWAR: The Pakhtun-khwa Ulasi Tehreek (PUT), a civil society organisation, on Monday asked Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to resign after accusing him of making false promises about achieving a number of projects for the province under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Speaking at a news conference here, the tehreek convener, Dr Said Alam Mehsud, said that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had made tall claims and promises, but he couldn’t honour them.He believed that KP and Fata had been ignored in the multi-billion dollars CPEC.
Flanked by the members of the PUT, Ajmal Afridi, Dr Rohila, Liaqat Yousafzai and others, he asked Pervez Khattak to tender resignation as he had been unable to honour his pledges. He said if the chief minister didn’t step down, they would ask political parties to hold the chief minister accountable for telling lies and violating the unanimous resolutions adopted by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.
Dr Mehsud said Pervez Khattak made tall claims of achieving rights of the province under the CPEC but there was no reality in his claims. He said that there was no electricity project for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in CPEC. “We cannot accept the Punjab-centric corridor, because CPEC is being built for the entire country,” he said.