MANSEHRA: Jamaat-i-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief Prof Mohammad Ibrahim has said that his party wants a complete overhaul of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for ensuring free and fair elections in future, but it will never support any unconstitutional move to wrap up the current democratic system in the country.

“We have strong objections over the role of the election commission in 2013 general elections and want its complete overhaul, but we still think the current democratic system should not be scraped through any unconstitutional way,” said Prof Ibrahim while speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday.

Prof Ibrahim and former MNA Shabir Ahmad are these days on a visit to Hazara in connection with the party’s reorganisation. He said that JI was playing an important role in bringing Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the federal government to the negotiating table and it would never be part of no-confidence move of opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“We are coalition partners in the KP government and would never be a part of any no-confidence move initiated by the opposition parties to dislodge Chief Minister Pervez Khattak,” he said.

Prof Ibrahim says demand for PM’s resignation unjustified

Mr Ibrahim said that the demand for the prime minister’s resignation by PTI and Pakistan Awami Tehreek was unjustified until electoral rigging was proved by any legal forum. He hoped that issues could still be resolved through negotiations.

The JI provincial chief said that the government should not expel the internally displaced people from schools as it was its duty to provide them shelter, food, health and education facilities. He also said that it would be better if the army wrapped up the operation in tribal areas without much delay.

“We want the government to make public its achievements in the ongoing Zarb-i-Azb operation,” he said.

Mr Ibrahim said that the coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite many challenges was doing its best and had almost eliminated corruption from the government departments.

POLICE TRAINING: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has organised five-day training for police officers of five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the Hazara University.

“The Hazara University is playing an important role in enhancing the professional abilities and ethics of police officers in the province,” said Dr Habib Ahmad, the dean of sciences, while speaking at the inaugural session of the training on Tuesday.

Police officers from Abbottabad, Kohat, Karak, Mansehra and Haripur would be imparted training in ethics, laws related to their profession and how to deal with untoward situations.

Dr Ahmad said that until the police would implement or follow law nobody else would do the same as it was the prime responsibility of police to make sure the rule of law.

“It is high time that universities come forward and help resolve social issues like lawlessness,” he said.

Training coordinator Ayaz Khan said that the UNDP had also launched a programme to establish writ of the government through police in Malakand division and it would continue till Dec 2015.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2014