PESHAWAR: The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has held the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government responsible for the increasing unemployment, price hike, lawlessness and weakening economy.

Speaking at a public meeting here on Friday, QWP provincial president Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao said that the government failed to pay attention to the genuine problems facing the people.

Party’s provincial information secretary Tariq Ahmad Khan, district Peshawar chairman Ibrar Khalil and general secretary Haji Saifullah Khan also spoke on the occasion and urged the people to join hands with QWP in its ‘struggle’ for the rights of the downtrodden.

Mr Sherpao alleged that the federal government had ignored the militancy-hit province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in every sector of life, while the provincial government had no capability to defend the due rights of the Pakhtuns both at the provincial and national levels.

“The destiny of the Pakhtuns cannot be changed merely on motivational slogans. It needs a strong, dedicated and sincere leadership to change the fortune of the common people which the PTI-led provincial government is lacking,” Sikandar Sherpao lamented.

He claimed that the QWP was well aware about the genuine problems of the people and it would not allow anyone to deny constitutional rights to Pakhtuns.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2015

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