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PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chief Aftab Sherpao said on Friday that no opposition party had made any attempt to destabilise the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but it was itself looking for excuses to escape.
He said the Imran Khan-led party had axed its own feet and could not blame any other party for destabilising his government. Actually, he said, the PTI is now ‘seriously contemplating’ leaving it. “No opposition party has tried to topple the PTI government and no one needs to do that,” he told a questioner in a press conference who asked whether there were any plans to overthrow the government as it has failed to solve people’s problems. “Let me tell you that PTI is seriously contemplating quitting the provincial government as it has failed,” he said.
Sherpao said Imran Khan once expressed his frustration and said he would dissolve the assembly. He said now the PTI chief was threatening the federal government of retaliation if his government was destabilised.
“He has to blame himself,” said Sherpao whose QWP was coalition partner with PTI in the provincial government until mid-November but was expelled on charges of corruption. “Not anybody else but he himself axed his feet. He failed to furnish any evidence against us that he had promised,” he added.
He lashed out at PTI for encouraging ‘mob politics.’ He alleged that Imran Khan was not serious or honest in solving Pakhtuns problems but was playing to the gallery. “He is playing politics on Pakhtuns miseries just to win political support in the Punjab,” he said, adding, “No effort is being made to deal with our (Pakhtuns) problems. People’s real problems are ignored. This behaviour is unacceptable to us.”
Sherpao said Pakhtuns’ blood had been spilled but the aid meant for them had never reached them. “Pakhtuns have suffered a lot-death of our children, sisters and elders,” he said. “We went through all the troubles but others misappropriated aid meant for Pakhtuns. They are doing politics on our sufferings,” he alleged. The QWP chief was critical of PTI for failing to initiate development projects in the province. He said that ‘not a single brick’ had been laid during the last six months of the PTI government despite the fact that infrastructure in the province had been destroyed by terrorism.
He said the Imran Khan-led party had axed its own feet and could not blame any other party for destabilising his government. Actually, he said, the PTI is now ‘seriously contemplating’ leaving it. “No opposition party has tried to topple the PTI government and no one needs to do that,” he told a questioner in a press conference who asked whether there were any plans to overthrow the government as it has failed to solve people’s problems. “Let me tell you that PTI is seriously contemplating quitting the provincial government as it has failed,” he said.
Sherpao said Imran Khan once expressed his frustration and said he would dissolve the assembly. He said now the PTI chief was threatening the federal government of retaliation if his government was destabilised.
“He has to blame himself,” said Sherpao whose QWP was coalition partner with PTI in the provincial government until mid-November but was expelled on charges of corruption. “Not anybody else but he himself axed his feet. He failed to furnish any evidence against us that he had promised,” he added.
He lashed out at PTI for encouraging ‘mob politics.’ He alleged that Imran Khan was not serious or honest in solving Pakhtuns problems but was playing to the gallery. “He is playing politics on Pakhtuns miseries just to win political support in the Punjab,” he said, adding, “No effort is being made to deal with our (Pakhtuns) problems. People’s real problems are ignored. This behaviour is unacceptable to us.”
Sherpao said Pakhtuns’ blood had been spilled but the aid meant for them had never reached them. “Pakhtuns have suffered a lot-death of our children, sisters and elders,” he said. “We went through all the troubles but others misappropriated aid meant for Pakhtuns. They are doing politics on our sufferings,” he alleged. The QWP chief was critical of PTI for failing to initiate development projects in the province. He said that ‘not a single brick’ had been laid during the last six months of the PTI government despite the fact that infrastructure in the province had been destroyed by terrorism.
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