JI blasts PTI govt for unrest, poor economy

CHARSADDA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Abdul Wasi said on Monday that the situation was extremely deteriorated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to poor law and order.

Abdul Wasi, who is JI ameer of KP , during a press conference alleged that corruption was rampant in government departments but the rulers had turned a blind eye to the issue.“Due to the poor performance of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, educational institutions are facing a severe financial crisis, and the government is selling university land to pay employees’ salaries,” he said after a meeting with JI zonal heads and allied organizations at Markaz-e-Islami, Charsadda.

Another JI leader Muhammad Riaz Khan, Shah Hussain Advocate, provincial media coordinator Noorul Wahid Jadoon, Fawad Ahmad Jan, Masoor Shah, Javed Khan and others were also present.Abdul Wasi said that the increasing use of ice (crystal meth) and other drugs had affected more than 150,000 people, the majority of whom were youth.

He said the provincial government was planning to privatise educational institutions, despite the fact that this privatization policy had already failed in Punjab. “The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are experiencing worst power loadshedding while the province is generating more electricity than its consumption,” he said, adding that the province’s economy was already devastated due to two decades of unrest and insurgency, and now the provincial government had burdened the people by imposing agricultural income tax and super tax on farmers.

The JI leader said that in the last general elections, a government was imposed on the country through Form 47 against the public mandate. He said the JI would soon launch a decisive movement against the government’s what he said were flawed policies.