LAHORE: The All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran on Wednesday warned of protest for an indefinite period against Khyber Pakhtunkhwah government if it failed to arrest the killers of the body’s KP president Halim Jan within 24 hours.

APAT leader Naeem Mir demanded Rangers’ deployment in KP on Karachi’s pattern to maintain law and order in the province.

Mir told a press conference that KP Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak had miserably failed in the management of the province, challenging the claim of Imran Khan that KP was number one province with regard to good governance.

He said the police’s poor performance in the province could be gauged from the fact that a renowned trader leader was killed in board daylight in the busy Kissa Khwani Bazaar.

“It is unfortunate that the KP government has failed to protect the traders, their property and business in the province and it is even (more) unfortunate that Imran Khan did not even issue any statement to condemn the gruesome murder of Halim Jan.”

The APAT leader alleged that militant Islamic State group and the Taliban, in connivance with police, were extorting money from the traders while the KP administration looked other way.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2016