HARIPUR, Aug 2: Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan has said the provincial government of the MMA has chosen the wrong course by adopting the controversial Hasba Bill.

“But we are not going to allow them to enforce a law which is repugnant to the constitution,” he said while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of natural gas supply to Khanpur area here on Monday evening.

Former federal minister Gohar Ayub Khan was also present on the occasion.

The natural gas supply project from the Jandial village to Khanpur, which is estimated to cost Rs60 million, will benefit 18 villages in the area, the minister told the gathering.

Lashing out at the MMA provincial government, the federal minister said that since it had miserably failed to deliver goods, the ruling religious parties alliance chose to divert the attention of the people from the real problems by passing the controversial Hasba Bill.

He said that the basic problems of the people of the NWFP were yet to be addressed but the provincial government was engaged in matters that were of no use to common citizens.