NOWSHERA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has reiterated threat to close down the Wapda House in Peshawar after Eid over the federal government’s failure to give due electricity share to the province.
“I’d taken up the electricity share issue with water and power minister Khawaja Asif but he’s been using delaying tactics on it. We’ll close down the Wapda House in Peshawar after Eidul Azha if the federal government doesn’t give us the due share in electricity,” he told reporters here in the hujra of excise and taxation minister Mian Jamsaiduddin here.
The CM claimed the PTI had delivered the goods in the province and would form the next federal government after sweeping the 2018 general elections.
He said the PTI government had brought visible improvement in the affairs of its departments and thus, protecting the rights of the people. Khattak said the government departments and organisations had been put on the right path and that the result of reforms there would be visible in few months.
He said unlike the past, the departments did the people’s work purely on merit. “I think it (adherence to merit) is the real change brought about the PTI government. In the past, the people had to pay money for their genuine work,” he said.
The CM criticised the last ANP-led government for ‘bringing the province to the brink of collapse’ by massive corruption. He said the National Accountability Bureau had begun investigation into charges of mega corruption against top ANP leaders.
Khattak said the government was serious about the promotion of healthy and positive youth activities in the province and would soon approve the youth policy. He said the PTI government had made record number of laws to the relief of the people.
The CM said the PTI believed in developing the entire province instead of spending its funds in a specific district as the last ANP government did. He said the government was trying to bring the most deprived districts on a par with developed districts.
Earlier, Khattak met people in his hujra at Manki Sharif in connection with Eidul Azha. His son-in-law and MNA Dr Imran Khattak, brother and district nazim Liaquat Khattak, and elders were also present on the occasion.
