Ziaullah says he has proofs about CM’s involvement in corruption
PESHAWAR
Breaking his silence months after his release from the lockup, disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Ziaullah Afridi on Saturday asked party chief Imran Khan to choose between his party and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak whom he accused of using the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) for his ulterior motives.
Talking to The News after his press conference, former provincial minister for Mines and Mineral Development Ziaullah Afridi said he had proofs about the involvement of the chief minister in corruption.
He said that former director general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) Lt Gen (Retd) Hamid Khan had found out that the chief minister was involved in cases of corruption, but no action was taken against him.
He claimed that he had evidence about the clandestine meetings of the KPEC investigators with the chief minister.
He alleged that the chief minister had appointed a murderer as investigator against whom five first information reports (FIRs) were registered, while its chief investigator, who belonged to the constituency of the chief minister, was the crony of the chief executive of the province.
The PTI leader, who is quite popular among the local chapter of the party, said that party workers were anxious to stage a sit-in in front of the KPEC offices if the party chief continued to ignore the lopsided working of the commission.
“I very humbly request Khan Sahib to please either save his party, which is bastion of principles and ideology of millions of the dedicated workers or save the elements around him including chief minster against whom corruption charges have been levelled by the former director general of KPEC,” he added.
“It is so painful for me like many other party workers that Imran Khan is being misled while PTI and its workers whose hearts still throb with “Khan” are going to take the brunt of all this,” Ziaullah said.
Earlier, speaking at the crowed press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Ziaullah Afridi said PTI workers and his supporters would lay siege to the offices of KPEC, if Imran Khan didn’t take note of the ‘misuse’ of powers by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.
