SWABI: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said here on Wednesday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf would face a crushing defeat in the local government elections scheduled to be held on Sunday (Dec 19).

He was addressing a public meeting held in Chota Lahor to boost the position of his party candidate Burhanullah, who is contesting election for Chota Lahor tehsil chairman slot.

Mr Sherpao said the slogan of ‘change’ would be sunk deep in the Indus River on the polling day.

“This is our resolve and determination because PTI has distorted the very landscape of politics and pushed people of the country in deep mental anxiety,” he said.

The QWP chairman said that the ruling party would in fact get the reaction in the upcoming polls to its wrong policies and record inflation in the country.

He regretted that the ruling party leadership had still been claiming that due to their policies essential commodities were available at cheaper rates in the country. Mr Burhanullah also spoke on the occasion.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz provincial president Amir Muqam claimed at a party gathering here on Wednesday that PTI was providing electricity transformers and other facilities to the voters to lure them into voting for its candidates.

“Take transformers, electricity poles and other facilities from the ruling party candidates, but break the bat and vote for the PML-N candidate,” he urged the people.

Mr Muqam said the prevailing situation had made it clear that the PTI government was taking the country to a point of no return.

BOOK FAIR: A two-day book fair started here on Wednesday, which attracted a large number of students of 11 disciplines of engineering and management sciences, academia and book lovers.

The book fair was organised by the central library of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology at the new academic block.

GIK Institute rector Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid was chief guest at the ceremony. Book suppliers from Rawalpindi, Lahore and Peshawar have set up their stalls at the fair.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2021