PESHAWAR, Jan 6: The combined opposition in the NWFP Assembly has accused the provincial government of delaying the execution of development schemes identified by opposition lawmakers six months ago.

Talking to Dawn, People's Party Parliamentarians' leader in the assembly alleged that most of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal's MPAs, whose development schemes had yet not been executed, were unhappy over the unjust attitude of their own government.

The NWFP government, he said, had wrongly projected the Annual Development Programme (ADP) on the assurances of payment of dues made by the Islamabad last year. He said the combined opposition would take up the issue of non-execution of the ADP after the passage of six months.

He said the MMA government had failed to execute the schemes identified under the Khushal Pakistan Programme, while the chief minister himself had assured the assembly that the KPP funds would be allocated on equal basis.

He said the opposition had twice requisitioned the assembly sessions in the past to discuss "illegal transfers and postings and non-implementation of recommendations by house committees on various departments," but the government had got the sessions prorogued in haste. This time the opposition would not allow the government to repeat the same old practice, Mr Khan added.

Despite the passage of the Shariat Bill, the provincial government had failed to revamp the judicial, education and economic systems promised by the MMA government a year ago.

The MMA leadership, he said, had been caught in a dilemma on the Hisba Act and because of it it wanted to keep the people in a state of permanent confusion because the law was impracticable. The MMA government wanted to establish a parallel police system in the garb of Hisba law, he added.