SWAT: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Khyber Pakhtunkhwa North (Malakand Division) and Ex. provincial minister Inayatullah Khan said that They strongly condemned the PTI provincial government’s biased attitude towards the 10 million people of Malakand Division.
He expressed these views while holding a press conference at the Swat Press Club along with Naib Uamra Syed Bakhtiar Moani (Ex. MNA), Muhammad Amin (Ex. MPA) and General Secretary Muhammad Haleem Bacha here on Friday.
Jamaat-e-Islami Swat Ameer Hameed-ul-Haq, Akhtar Ali Khanji, Dr. Bashir Ahmed and other leaders were also present on the occasion.
Inayatullah Khan said that the provincial government has robbed the people of Malakand Division by closing ongoing Mega development projects worth more than Rs 42 billion and withholding funds, added that PTI government has cancelled development projects worth a total of more than Rs 42 billion approved in the districts of Swat, Buner, Shangla, Dir, Malakand, Chitral and Bajaur of Malakand division in the previous period and has insulted the mandate of the people here by freezing their funds.
“We condemn this in the strongest terms, adding that the people of Malakand division gave the mandate to PTI three times in a row, but the same party did injustice to the people here, he said.”
He said that even the role of PTI ministers and members of the assembly who were elected by the people’s votes has been very disappointing in this regard. Inayatullah Khan said that for the first time in the history of the province, a government has lathi-charged local government representatives and subjected them to severe torture. He expressed regret that those who staged sit-ins in Islamabad are depriving local government representatives of their democratic rights. Inayatullah Khan bluntly announced that if the government does not release funds and revive the previously approved development projects in Malakand division, the Jamaat-e-Islami will launch a full-scale protest movement against these cruel measures of the government and in this regard, an all-party conference and other options can be considered,” he concluded.
