CHITRAL: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has said the PTI government is the most inefficient one in history.

Mr Mushtaq told a news conference here on Sunday that 22 billion people were struggling to make both ends meet due to the ruling PTI’s bad governance and corruptibility.

He said since the PTI had formed government in the centre, the country’s economy had been in bad shape and millions of people lived below poverty line.

The JI leader complained about high rate of youth unemployment and said thegovernment’s policies had depriving people of jobs in both private and public sectors.

He also criticised the government’s poor Kashmir policy, which, he said, had encouraged India to change the special status of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir region.

Mr Mushtaq said the history would remember Prime Minister Imran Khan for Kashmir sell-out.

He said the premier was indifferent to the misery of the residents of the India-held Kashmir but he was overenthusiastic about the Kartarpur Corridor opening through which he gave extraordinary concessions and favours to Indians.

The JI leader warned the prime minister against doing a U-turn on Kashmir issue.

He appreciated the JUI-F’s Azadi March protest in Islamabad and said his party would begin own movement to send the ruling PTI packing.

CONFESSED: The main accused in a murder case has confessed to his crime in a court here saying he had killed a young resident of Garam Chashma and his pregnant wife at the behest of her family.

The court sent Attaur Rahman of Sheringal area in Upper Dir to jail but didn’t extend the physical remand of the other accused, including Khurshid, Hamza and Hujjaj of Dir Kohistan.

An official of Chitral police station told Dawn that the main accused revealed that the assassinated girl’s family had struck the Rs1.5 million murder deal with him and paid him Rs0.3 million in advance.

He said the girl’s relatives were upset at the couple for marrying on their own.

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2019