NOWSHERA, Oct 24: Differences have cropped up between the Nowshera chapters of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Jamaat-i-Islami as Jamaat leaders are openly criticising the PTI-led coalition government for ignoring its workers in jobs and other matters.

Sources said that Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had made a complaint to Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Prof Ibrahim about the new developments.

“He also suggested setting up a joint coordination committee to chalk out future line of action,” sources in the JI said.

They said that the proposed names for the joint coordination committee included JI district chief Merajuddin, Shabab-i-Milli district president Iftikhar Ahmad and Asif Luqman while on provincial level Senior Minister Sirajul Haq would represent the party.

Quoting JI local leadership, the sources said that they had set January 30 deadline for the provincial government to devise a clear formula for sharing developmental works with the coalition partners.

In case of the PTI’s failure, the Nowshera chapter of JI would start a protest movement to pressurise its leadership to part ways with the PTI, they said.

The local JI leaders have criticised new appointments in health department and workers welfare board, alleging that the PTI-led government had ignored coalition parties in sharing the jobs.

The sources said that the PTI could get 50 per cent share in all jobs while the remaining 50 per cent should be distributed among the allied partners, including JI and Qaumi Watan Party.

In this connection, when JI district chief Merajuddin was contacted he said that his party had not given any deadline for launching agitation nor was there any grouping in the Jamaat.

He, however, said that they had registered complaints with the provincial JI amir against the attitude of PTI local leadership with their activists.

Mr Merajuddin also said that the JI provincial amir had issued a press statement that all matters with the PTI-led government were moving in the right direction.