Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Senior Vice President and Chief Organizer Maryam Nawaz Friday said that the incompetent and corrupt rulers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had left Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in shambles during their 10-year government.
All the sectors, including education, health, infrastructure, and sanitation services had been ruined as the province was now in a state of affairs which it had a century ago, she said while chairing a meeting on the party’s re-organisation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including the Hazara Division. Maryam Nawaz said that terrorism was a big challenge, however, the coalition government was taking steps for protecting life and property of the people.
PML-N President Engr Amir Muqam and General Secretary Murtaza Javed Abbassi, besides the leadership of different party wings, attended the meeting. Maryam Nawaz appreciated Amir Muqam and Murtaza Abbasi for their leadership role in the party’s organisation in the KP. Like the Hazara Division, the rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was also becoming a stronghold of the party, she added. She said she was proud of the workers, who were giving sacrifices for the party. The ideological and committed workers would be honoured and their problems would be addressed on priority, she added. Earlier on her arrival in the city, she was accorded a warm welcome by the party leaders and workers.
Meanwhile Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Friday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) during its four years of rule at the Centre and 10 years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did nothing for the welfare of the common man rather than leaving behind a trail of plunder and destruction. The incumbent government would eventually revive the economy by focusing on national development and prosperity with the ultimate objective of self-reliance, she said addressing a press conference.
Flanked by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Javed Abbasi, the minister said the Imran Khan-led regime had signed the agreement with the International Monetary Fund on tough conditions and then itself violated its provisions, and the present government had no option but to renegotiate for the revival of the economy. She said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Quaid Nawaz Sharif as prime minister had successfully negotiated the IMF programme in 2014, and during its implementation, not a single rupee increase in the prices of daily-use commodities and utilities was witnessed. Resultantly, no burden was passed on to the common people.
The minister said PML-N’s Senior Vice President and Chief Organizer Maryam Nawaz had launched a campaign to reorganize the party by holding conventions and meeting with workers across the country. For organizing the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Maryam Nawaz was now in Hazara Division. She had addressed a workers’ convention on Thursday and today met members of the party’s women and social media wings in Abbottabad, she added.
She said the PML-N Quaid had great love and affection for the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly of the Hazara Division. He had always taken care of the KP people, as evident by the facility of health cards which was launched from Abbottabad in 2014. She said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had recently inaugurated the Hazara Electric Company and it was a continuity of the legacy of Nawaz Sharif, who had given the gift of a motorway to the people of Hazara.
Marriyum said the PML-N government had the vision to provide facilities like metro-bus, Daanish Schools, Orange Train, modern hospitals, information technology centers and universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa like those of Punjab, but the last PTI government did nothing in that regard. She regretted that the PTI government during the last ten years had not added a new single room in the KP hospitals and schools.
The minister said during her last visit to the Abbottabad Press Club, she was impressed with the facilities being provided to its members, which should be emulated across the country. She invited the newly-elected members of the press club for oath-taking in the Federal Capital and assured the provision of laptops and equipment for digital studio. Marriyum recalled the difficulties faced by journalists during the four years of PTI government and said the Ministry of Information was working on the rules for the implementation of the bill for the safety and security of journalists.
