MANSEHRA: Former provincial minister Haq Nawaz Khan has joined PML-N after quitting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf alleging its policies are ‘anti-Pakistan’.

“I had joined PTI for a better and corruption-free Pakistan, but its policies proved to be anti-Pakistan and anti-people and that is why I decided to quit it,” Mr Khan told a gathering held in connection with his joining of PML-N in Schain area here on Sunday.

Federal minister Sardar Mohammad Yousuf and district nazim Said Ghulam were also present on this occasion.

Mr Khan said that despite its claim of change the PTI failed to bring any positive change in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the first three years of its government.

“I salute Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for putting the country on the path of development by launching mega projects even in Mansehra and Hazara,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Yousuf welcomed Mr Khan into his party and said that the country was making rapid progress under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.

The district nazim said that Mansehra was the stronghold of PML-N and its lawmakers in the Senate, National Assembly, provincial assemblies and district government were serving the people and solving their problems.

FREE TREATMENT: Nawabzada Fareed, opposition leader in the Oghi tehsil council, has said that 23,000 families in 10 union councils of PK-57 would get free treatment services through Senat Insaf Cards.

“This is a revolutionary step by the PTI government and through this programme at least 23,000 families in PK-57 would be benefited,” he told a gathering in Lassan Nawab area here on Sunday.

He said that PTI chief Imran Khan wanted standard health care and treatment services for the people through the Sehat Insaf Cards. He said that as many as 119,000 families would benefit from this health scheme in Mansehra district alone.

Published in Dawn January 16th, 2017