CHITRAL: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Drosh tehsil president Imranul Mulk has launched a scathing attack on his own government over the distribution mechanism for the Prime Minister’s Ramazan Relief Package, claiming the poor were excluded from the initiative.

In a strongly worded statement issued on Monday, the party leader revealed that he spent his holiday personally verifying the CNICs of hundreds of impoverished residents via the federal government’s portal. The exercise yielded staggering results: out of more than 200 cases of extreme poverty, not a single individual was found eligible for the relief scheme.

“If the beneficiaries of this Rs38-billion package are not the rightful people of Drosh, then where is this money going?” Mulk questioned, alleging that the scheme appears to exist primarily on paper as a tool to ‘hoodwink’ the poor.

The PML-N tehsil president expressed frustration, noting that while the provincial government’s Ramazan package was allegedly being restricted to those with specific political affiliations, the federal government’s initiative was simultaneously sidelining its own loyalists and the genuinely needy people.

Condemning what he described as the ‘contemptuous’ treatment of PML-N workers by the party’s own administration, Mulk warned that such an attitude would inflict irreparable damage on the party’s reputation.

“The practice of ignoring those who stand by the party must end,” he stated, urging the prime minister and the top leadership to take immediate notice of the administrative failures in the region.

He further called upon party workers to utilise social media and other platforms to register their protest, warning that a failure to speak up now would leave workers with no standing in the future.

He concluded with a stern ultimatum, vowing to lead a ‘severe protest’ if the rights of the deserving are not restored, asserting that remaining silent on public grievances is a moral failure.

Published in Dawn, February 24th, 2026