LAHORE, Feb 1: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani said on Thursday that certain elements were creating a law and order situation in the province to destabilise his government.

The chief minister said this in a brief chat with newsmen at a local hospital where he went to see Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of opposition in the National Assembly, who is recovering from a heart treatment.

He said certain elements were bent upon propagating that the law and order was an issue in the NWFP only, and all other provinces were in peace.

Such an attitude was not warranted in the larger interest of the country, he said.

Without making a reference to the blast which took place in a busy market of Peshawar the other day, Mr Durrani said that his government had always sympathised with the past governments in the province as and when law and order situation took an ugly turn.

But such an attitude was missing in case of the MMA government, he added.

Certain elements, he said, gave a wrong impression about the NWFP government when something happened in the province.

"Respect for others is a basic element in our culture, and we keep this tradition alive when we do politics," he added.

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi also visited Maulana Fazlur Rehman at the hospital.

He told newsmen that the maulana was fine and would recover soon.