Abdul Hakeem Mohmand
PESHAWAR
President of opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Hamayun Khan, has warned that the ruling PTI government would fall under its own weight if it continued with its wrong policies.
“The lives of people were not as miserable as we saw during this incompetent government,” said Khan, who was a provincial finance minister during PPP’s previous government.
During an interaction with senior journalists, Khan said that the PM Imran Khan-led government has completely failed to deliver on promises that he had made before coming into power. “PPP, being a democratic party and having its roots in the masses, believes to give it time despite knowing that this is a selected government,” Khan added. At the same time, Khan said, all opposition parties want to give the incumbent government some more time so that it further exposes itself to the people.
Hamayun Khan further said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has been mum over the mega corruption scandals of the current and previous PTI governments in KP. “There is complete silence over the foreign funding case. Big bucks were also made in mega projects executed in the province,” he said.
“This government wraps up things under the carpet. Imran Khan himself tries to rescue his party colleagues involved in corruption. There are so many scams, like Bus Rapid Transit, Malam Jabba scandal and audiotape leakage scam but no one in the government bothers to probe it,” the former minister said.
Khan said that both the federal and provincial governments failed to provide any relief to the people in the recent budgets. “The prices of essentials items of daily use have skyrocketed. Leave alone private clinics, people even cannot afford to visit government hospitals due to their severe financial constraints,” he added.
Gohar Inquilabi, PPP’s deputy information secretary, sitting next to his president, said that only chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari can take out the country from the current critical situation. “All tall claims of this government have evaporated into a thin air. People who had voted for it now feel shy to say it in public,” Inquilabi said.
