PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party has announced to mobilise public against both the federal and provincial governments for ‘failing’ to initiate mega uplift schemes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The decision to bring people on roads was taken at a meeting here on Monday.

On the occasion, PPP provincial president Engr Mohammad Humayun Khan said that workers’ conventions would be held at about 100 places in the province in this respect.

Criticising PTI chairman Imran Khan, he said despite tall claims the party failed to deliver in KP and thus the common people were parting ways with it. Referring to a statement of PTI that many of the sitting MPAs would not be given tickets in next elections, the PPP leader said Imran Khan would be unable to find candidates in future as his people did not fulfill their commitments with voters.

He also came down hard on federal government for failure to ‘initiate’ a single mega project in the province, saying that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s lack of interest in KP could easily be judged from delay in pace of work on Lowari Tunnel where many people lost lives during current winter. He said the government was least bothered to take prompt steps for rescue of the people and compensation of the affected families.

Through a resolution the meeting condemned the fresh wave of terrorism in the country and urged the federal government to implement the National Action Plan.

The PPP leaders said bombing of shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan was a cowardly act on part of its planners.

Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2017