PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Saturday warned that it would end the policy of reconciliation and devise an effective plan for toppling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if Imran Khan did not change his anti-Nawaz stance.

The warning came from PML-N provincial senior vice-president Ikhtiar Wali Khan during a press conference at Peshawar Press Club. Flanked by Peshawar district president Abdul Sattar Khalil, Moazam Bacha, Mian Alamgir, Khalil Khattak and MSF president Haider Shah, he said that work on formation of a grand political alliance had been initiated and all the parties except PTI would be contacted to extend cooperation.

The leaguer said that Imran Khan always used to speak derogatory words against his political opponents, especially Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but the PML-N workers were not allowed to respond in the same language.

Asks Imran to stop his anti-Nawaz campaign

He described PTI’s march as flop show and warned that his party workers would take to streets across the KP and besiege the Chief Minister’s House in Peshawar if PTI chairman Imran Khan didn’t stop his anti-PM campaign forthwith.

Commenting on the Raiwind march, he said that there was nothing new in it as Imran levelled the same old allegations at a public meeting of very limited people, which disappointed even his own party people.

“Imran Khan has nothing to do with bringing any change in the fate of common people, but raises slogans to come into power. He will not be able to become prime minister, mainly because of his irresponsible language and biased attitude,” he said.

The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he said, were witness to the poor performance of PTI-led government where the situation of hospitals, educational institutions and roads had worsened during the past over three years.

Ikhtiar Wali said that one of the PTI’s slogans was against corruption, but it also failed to bear fruit because its elected representatives were involved in malpractices. He said that the portfolio of health ministry had been given to a person who had cigarette factories.

He slammed Chief Minister Pervez Khattak for his ‘derogatory remarks’ from top of the container. He asked the CM to evaluate the performance of ‘corrupt’ members of his cabinet and hold them accountable for indulging in massive corruption before levelling such accusations against the top leadership of the country.

“PTI chairman and KP CM should seek pardon from the prime minister over the derogatory remarks and abusive language they used during their speeches in Raiwind from top of the container,” he demanded.

Terming Imran Khan a pioneer of offshore company, the PML-N leader asked the PTI chairman to start accountability process from his own party besides holding the chief minister, provincial ministers and advisers answerable for their involvement in corruption in the province.

He claimed that PML-N would emerge as a stronger force in the upcoming general elections in KP. He said that so far they remained calm and didn’t take any step to destabilise the KP government. However, he warned that they would shun the politics of reconciliation if the PTI chairman didn’t change his behaviour against the PML-N leadership. In this regard, he said that they would contact all the political parties to form a PML-led government in KP.

Recounting achievement of the PML-N government in centre, Ikhtiar Wali said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor would bring economic prosperity and development to the country.

Sattar Khalil said that Imran’s plan to march on Islamabad was intolerable and the PML-N workers would block his movement towards the federal capital.

Published in Dawn October 2nd, 2016