PESHAWAR, Dec 8: NWFP opposition leader Shahzada Gistasip Khan has said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government does not need any opponents to climb it down as the bad governance is taking it towards its logical end.

Briefing to newsmen after a joint meeting of opposition parties here at his residence on Monday, Mr Khan said that the MMA component parties were not satisfied with the performance of their government even after the passage of one year. The MMA MPAs were also making complaints against the government, which had transferred all the development funds to the three districts, he added.

Abdul Akbar Khan of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Anwar Kamal Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Sikandar Khan Sherpao of the Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao), Amir Rehman Khan of the Awami National Party and Nighat Orakzai of the PML-Q attended the joint meeting and discussed the MMA’s future role in assembly.

This was the first session, which had been requisitioned by the government. It may be recalled that all the previous sessions had been requisitioned by the opposition.

Mr Khan said the government had still not furnished the agenda of the session. “We would submit agenda with every requisition in the past, but this time the MMA government is trying to conceal something from us”, he added.

He agreed that the government might table the Hisba Act in the assembly, however, he was not sure of it.

He said the government had dropped 400 development schemes and slashed some others, which had been identified in the annual development programme. He said the current ADP was based on over 1,200 directives given by the chief minister, which had created a mess for the ADP executors. The finance department had asked the government to drop 100 more development schemes from the ADP to make it executable and workable, he added.

This new situation, he said, would leave most of the districts void of any development scheme in the current financial year. The government had made too many tall claims about the improvement in health, education and other social sectors, but it had failed to run even hospitals and educational institutions properly, Mr Khan added.

On one hand, he said, the government had doled out Rs1,500 million to the Durrani Public School, a private school which was christened after the name of chief minister, and granted only Rs10 million for the women university. This showed how responsible was the provincial government, he added.