Election 2018: Asfandyar Wali Khan says PTI did not deliver in KP

ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar wali Khan has said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had badly failed to deliver in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa during its last government and people of the province were disappointed by Imran Khan’s leadership.

Imran Khan had been claiming that he would bring change across the country but he was failed to introduce any major change in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, he said talking to a private news channel. He said ground realities were totally different regarding development in the area as being claimed by the PTI chief. He said PTI was visible just on social and electronic media but not at any other place.

PTI ministers and MPAs had raised their voices against their own chief minister regarding corruption during its government, adding National Accountability Bureau had started an investigation into Billion Trees project, he added. He said Imran Khan was lying regarding betterment in the education sector in the province, adding not a single child was shifted from private school to government school.

He alledged that Imran Khan had spent the resources of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Punjab for strengthening his party there. Replying to a question regarding court’s verdict against Nawaz Sharif, he said he was against the timing of the verdict and questions were being raised regarding the impartiality and fair general election process.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.