PESHAWAR
Over 100 chairmen of the village and neighborhood councils from Peshawar and Malakand region of the province on Wednesday joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The local body representatives also expressed their resolve to support the PTI chairman Imran Khan in his proposed anti-government march on Islamabad.
According to a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s House, Mahmood Khan welcomed the local body representatives.
Speaking on the occasion, CM Mahmood Khan said people were leaving the other political parties, especially those who had formed alliance under the PDM, adding that Imran Khan was struggling to ensure the real sovereignty of the country and people from all corners of the country will take a stand with him.
Chief Minister Mehmood Khan has claimed that ‘Haqiqi-March’ to Islamabad would be a decisive blow as it would decide the future of the country, adding time has come to oust PDM leadership from politics.
“The people have given their decision and Tehreek-e-Insaf has become the most popular party in the country,” he added and said that people will make the real freedom march under the leadership of Imran Khan successful and no compromise will be made until the ‘real freedom’ is achieved.
More than a hundred village and neighborhood councils of Peshawar, Khyber, Kohat, Shangla, Dir, Swat, Chitral, Bajaur, Charsadda and Mardan districts officially announced their joining PTI.
Mahmood Khan congratulated those who joined and said that more than 200 local representatives of Hazara and Southern Regions have also joined PTI.
“It is a reflection of full confidence in the leadership of PTI chairman Imran Khan,” he added. Khan while addressing the local body representatives said that Imran Khan is the only leader who was fighting tirelessly for the survival of the nation and the rights of the common man.
He said that the current ‘imported government’ has no manifesto for the welfare and development of the people.
“These people have been involved in looting the national resources for the past three decades and still came to the government only to save their looted wealth. Imported rulers have always destroyed national institutions through political interference and are still amending laws to protect their vested interests and prevent corruption,” he alleged.
He accused the incumbent government of lacking capacity to sustain the economy of the country, adding that due to the government incompetence the country passing through unprecedented inflation and political instability.
The Chief Minister said that a real freedom march has been planned by the PTI chairman to get the country out of this quagmire of problems and everyone has to play their role to make it successful.
Meanwhile, while talking about the new local government system, the Chief Minister said that PTI believes in the transfer of powers to the lower level.
He said that concrete steps were being taken to solve the problems faced by local body representatives.
The Chief Minister said that the provincial government has taken several initiatives including Health Card and Kisan Card to benefit the citizen of the province without any political discrimination.
He said that for the first time in history, the provincial government has started the process of providing honorarium to Imams of mosques and the government was trying to make the service delivery system effective as per PTI’s manifesto.
