No-show: K-P gives cold shoulder to visiting senators

PESHAWAR: The PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday did not pay any attention to the Senate’s functional committee for decentralisation that visited K-P  to discuss the implementation of the 18th Amendment.

“Neither Chief Minister Pervez Khattak nor any member of his cabinet showed up in the meeting with the committee members which was held at the chief secretary’s office,” committee chairman Kabir Ahmad Muhammad Shahi told the media after the meeting.

Kabir and his committee members, including PPP Senator Sassui Palijo, criticised the K-P government for ignoring the committee members which were on a two-day visit to the province.

“We are here to listen to the province’s problems. It is a forum for you to raise your problems, but none of the ministers have bothered to show up,” Kabir said.

He said the committee had visited Balochistan and Sindh before coming to K-P and received a good response there.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 28^th, 2017.