PTI responsible for mishandling of IDP issue: PPP

The PPP leaders demanded that all cases against IDPs should be dismissed

ISLAMABAD: With most opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) gearing up to form a grand alliance, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has also joined the bandwagon of parties holding the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led provincial government responsible for mishandling the issue of internally displaced people (IDPs).

Senator Farhatullah Babar at the PPP Secretariat in Islamabad on Tuesday said that since the IDPs are in K-P, the provincial government cannot run away from its duty to work for the people who were making sacrifices to end terrorism and militancy in the country.

Flanked by party leaders before dispatching winter items including clothes, blankets and other necessary goods for IDPs camped in Bannu, the PPP senator condemned the recent police raid during ration distribution.

“We admire the IDPs heroic role. They are playing a frontline role in the war against militancy,” Senator Babar said.

Former information minister and ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman said that and they should work together for the rehabilitation of IDPs. “We will make effort so they do not end up as refugees.”

PPP leaders further demanded that all cases against IDPs should be dismissed, and the policemen responsible held accountable.

Former chairman Pakistan Baitul Mal, Zamurad Khan offered to adopt all those children who have become orphans during the ongoing military conflict in the tribal belt.

“I request the media and Pakistan Army to help me find such children,” he said.

Meanwhile, Awami National Party’s (ANP) Senator Zahid Khan while talking to The Express Tribune said his party head had made a grand alliance against the K-P government, and that all political parties in the province are willing to play a broader role particularly for the rehabilitation of the IDPs.

The senator had also submitted a privilege motion in the upper house to discuss all development projects in K-P, saying the PTI government had become an impediment in the progress of the militancy-hit province.

While holding a file in his hands, the ANP leader claimed he had documentary evidence of CM Pervez Khattak’s corruption.