PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has strongly reacted to the reports about the federal government’s decision to hand over Islamabad’s security to the security forces for three months and warned that the PTI workers will reach Islamabad on August 14 at all costs by breaking restrictions.

Speaking to mediapersons at an Iftar dinner at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, Provincial Minister for Information Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani said that the PTI’s mandate had been stolen and it was its democratic right to raise voice against the poll rigging.

“We will not derail democracy, but we have to derail the government which was formed as a result of fake mandate,” the information minister said and added that PML-N was baffled by the PTI’s planned public meeting in Islamabad and thus decided to hand over the federal capital to security forces.

Mr Ghani said that all those criticising the PTI provincial government should realise that the previous governments were involved in corruption, selling of jobs, taking heavy commissions in contracts and obliging their near and dear ones in violation of the rules.

“We do not believe in easy load, commissions and percentage, but believe in merit and qualification,” said the minister. He said that the information department was not abolished, but rationalised and the same process would be initiated in other departments too to reduce financial burden on the economy of the province.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2014