Bilour questions drive against encroachment

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) senior leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour Tuesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government was snatching source of income from the people on the pretext of anti-encroachment drive in the city.
Speaking at a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Ghulam Bilour said that took the vendors and shopkeepers years to establish their businesses.He said the people of Peshawar, especially of national constituency NA-1 Peshawar, wholeheartedly voted for the PTI’s Chairman Imran Khan but in return his party’s government was snatching their livelihood.
Ghulam Bilour said the government should have arranged an alternative place for the vendors and other businessmen before launching the anti-encroachment drive in Peshawar. “The 90 percent affectees of the drive belong to the most neglected segments of the society,” he added. He said the anti-encroachment drive would make a few people happy but deprive thousands of poor people from their source of income.
The ANP leader said there were other big problems that demanded government attention. “The kidnapping for ransom, incidents of target killing, extortion and traffic mess have made the life miserable for the people but the government is the least bothered to solve these problems,” he added.
He said the PTI was voted to power in the name of bringing about a change but the party failed to honour a single commitment it had made with the people during its nearly two years rule in the province.