LAKKI MARWAT: Former MPA Yasmeen Zia has alleged that the lawmakers from the district are inaugurating development projects sanctioned during the previous Awami National Party-led provincial government.

Speaking at a public meeting in Kotka Mehmud near Serai Gambila town here on Sunday, she claimed that the ANP government had spent over Rs3 billion on developmental schemes in the backward district. “Now political rivals are trying to take the credit of those uplift projects by placing plaques of their names on them,” she maintained.

The former lawmaker claimed that the Awami National Party had brought the real change in the province by establishing nine varsities during its five-year tenure as compared to the five universities which were set up in the last 65 years in the entire province.

Ms Zia called upon the party activists to accelerate the mass contact campaign and spread the message of Bacha Khan to every nook and corner of the district.

On the occasion, several elders along with their supporters announced to join ANP and vowed that they would strengthen the party in their locality and adjacent villages.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2014