PESHAWAR: PML-N MNA Daniyal Aziz has announced to mobilise people through nazims in different districts during Ramazan in order to launch a province-wide campaign against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government soon after Eidul Fitr.

Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday, he said that a number of elected representatives of PTI would also support the movement against the provincial government as they were opposed to what he called double standards of the party leadership.

Flanked by nazims and councilors of different political parties and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPAs, Mr Aziz said that following preparations during Ramazan a movement would be launched against the provincial government after Eidul Fitr.

“Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the only province where PTI is in power and it has failed to establish a public safety commission,” he said. The PML-N leader claimed that in the provincial budget the funds for nazims had been slashed by 70 per cent, while powers of elected representatives were also curtailed.

He said that there was a clear difference in words and deeds of PTI chief Imran Khan.

He said that Mr Khan had claimed to uproot corruption within 90 days, but he could not do so in three years. He also described the provincial government’s billion tree tsunami campaign as a hollow slogan.

“PTI has jailed its own provincial minister (Ziaullah Afridi) as he was in the habit to pinpoint its mistakes and corruption in different departments,” Mr Aziz said and claimed that corruption and crime rate had increased in KP during past three years.

He said that after tall claims the provincial government had set up Ehtesab Commission with retired Gen Hamid Khan as its director general, but he was not allowed to take action against those involved in corruption, and rather he was forced to quit.

He claimed that the Bank of Khyber had been looted, but still no probe commission was formed in this regard. “Who is responsible for the Bank of Khyber embezzlement? Who removed the Ehtesab Commission chief? And who terminated the files of the corrupt?” Mr Aziz sought answers from Mr Khan to these questions.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2016