KARAK: Central president of Shabab-i-Milli Atiqur Rehman said on Tuesday that some political forces had been using the youth for their political gains. He claimed that anti-Pakistan countries were involved in the ongoing political crisis.

Mr Rehman was addressing the cabinet meeting of Shabab-i-Milli, Karak. He said that youth were 57 per cent of the country’s population and the nation had pinned high hopes on them.

The youth leader said that Pakistan had been facing a host of problems, adding that hundreds of people have been rendered homeless due to the military operation in Waziristan.

He said that Jamaat-i-Islami would bring a real change in the country. He said that JI had not been occupied by a few families. He said an honest man like Sirajul Haq had been elected as the JI central chief which reflected the real spirit of democracy in the ranks of the party.

He said that on the one hand people had been facing electricity loadshedding, on the other the Peshawar Electric Supply Company was sending them inflated bills.

He said that the rates of utility bills and daily use commodities were revised after every three months on the advice of international financial institutions and donors.

Shabab-i-Milli provincial president Hafiz Ibrar and district general secretary of JI Ayatullah Khattak were also present on the occasion.

NO RIFT IN PTI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Kamran Khattak has said that they have resolved their differences with the district leadership on the direction of party chairman Imran Khan.

Talking to mediapersons here on Tuesday, he said that they had reservations and complaints about performance of the government departments and resolution of workers’ problems, but they had forgotten their differences with the district leadership in view of the party’s sit-in in Islamabad. He hoped that the party would redress their complaints.

Published in Dawn, October 1st, 2014