LAKKI MARWAT: JUI-Nazryati organised a demonstration by activists of different political parties in the Lakki city on Sunday to protest against the federal government for ‘ignoring’ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

The workers gathered at the Qazi Ishfaq Chowk on the main bus stand, chanting slogans against the federal government for “turning the project into the Punjab corridor”. The protesters also carried banners inscribed with demand that work on the western route of the corridor should immediately be launched.

On the occasion, district nazim Ishfaq Ahmad Meenakhel alleged that the federal government had deprived the people of Pakhtunkhwa of the benefits of CPEC by ‘changing’ its original route.

Olasi Tehreek chief Dr Syed Alam Mehsud claimed that the CPEC had been turned into China-Punjab corridor. The project will mainly benefit Punjab,” he added, asking the political leadership of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to break silence on the excesses and injustices with Pakhtuns.

JUI-N provincial deputy chief Mufti Mohammad Khan Haqqani and Dr Qazi Gul Rehman also spoke on the occasion.

Meanwhile, the Counter-Terrorism Department DSP Riazul Islam, who was killed by unknown assailants in Peshawar on Saturday, was laid to rest in his native Mela Shahabkhel village near Lakki city with full official honour on Sunday.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2016