SWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said here on Saturday that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf would be given a surprise in the second phase of the local government elections by the honest and experienced candidates of his party.

He said this while addressing an election campaign rally held for JI mayor candidate Mohammad Amin at Salampur, Swat. Apart from the party workers, alarge number of people also participated in the rally.

The JI leader alleged that the PTI government only looted public funds and had failed to deliver.

“The PTI MPA and DDAC chairman has done nothing except making money. In the previous tenure, his assets reached Rs5 billion and I believe that his assets in this tenure would have touched Rs10 billion,” he alleged.

Senator Ahmad said that PTI and its leadership were incompetent who even did not know how to run the government and that was why they pushed the country into the quagmire of problems.

He said the JI candidate for the mayor seat was an honest man.

“Mohammad Amin remained MPA for five years during the MMA tenure, but he does not have even a bank account though he had executed several mega projects for Swat,” he said, adding that the JI candidates would actively resolve people’s problems.

He said the people of Babuzai city asked his party candidates to contest the local government elections because of their honesty. “I believe that on March 31, the people of Swat will use their votes in Mohammad Amin’s favour,” he said.

The rally was also addressed by Mohammad Amin and others activists. Earlier, on his arrival in Swat, Senator Ahmad was given a warm welcome in Saidu Sharif, Shagai, Kokrai and Salampur areas.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2022