LAKKI MARWAT: Pakistan Peoples Party candidate for NA-36, Lakki Marwat, Inamullah Khan Inqilabi has criticised the party’s central executive council member Anwar Saifullah Khan for running the election campaign of candidates affiliated with a rival political party and asked party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to take notice of the matter.

“The PPP has fielded candidates for one seat of National Assembly and three seats of provincial assembly in the district,” Mr Inqilabi told a press conference on Friday. He said that though Mr Saifullah was the party’s CEC member, he kept himself away from electioneering of the PPP candidates.

He said that Anwar Saifullah was engaged in running the campaign of PTI candidates under an understanding his brother Salim Saifullah had made with former chief minister Pervez Khattak a few weeks before the end of PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

PPP candidate says Saifullah running campaign for PTI in Lakki

On several occasions in last couple of months, Anwar Saifullah had told public gatherings that he would not contest general elections as he had differences with the party leadership. He had complained that he was not consulted before issuing of tickets to the contenders in his native district.

About his poll agenda, Mr Inqilabi said that provision of drinking water to the residents was among his top priorities.

KILLED: Three people, including a school student, were killed in separate firing incidents in the district.

Police said on Friday that in the first incident one Samiullah allegedly shot and killed his uncle Akbar Khan in his house located on Tank Road in Pezu town. Police started investigations after registering the case and have started search for the alleged killer.

In the second incident, a woman, identified as Hasan Bibi, was killed by an unidentified armed man in her home in Maghara locality. The local police have registered a case against the unknown killer on the complaint of the woman’s husband.

Separately, a secondary school student Abdul Rehman was shot dead in Khawajakhel village. According to police, the student had refused to keep forced friendship with the alleged killer identified as Nawaz Khan. A case has been registered on the complaint of Samiullah, an uncle of the student.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2018