Previous govt did little for K-P’s residents: Ghani

Higher education adviser says college admission process to be digitised

PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa hit back at the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday, accusing the latter of failing to do anything for the people of the province.

Adviser to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, while talking to the media while laying the foundation stone for the directorate of higher education in Peshawar on Thursday, slammed statements from the former president of Pakistan and co-chairman of PPP Asif Ali Zardari wherein he said that the PTI government had failed to bring change in the province.

Ghani said that Zardari’s five-day visit to the province was ‘just for fun’ and that the PPP party would never succeed in the upcoming election. He added that the ‘Zardari name’ itself symbolised destruction while the people of the province would expect nothing from the PPP.

The advisor also criticised the previous provincial governments for doing nothing for the people of the province.



“The PTI will win the next elections by a large margin from Punjab and Sindh, which are considered to be the hubs of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PPP respectively,” Ghani said.

Accusing previous governments of corruption, Ghani asked how could those parties criticise the PTI government in their speeches. He added that the PTI carried out a record amount of work in the past four years and that it was on the basis of these developments that they will win the upcoming elections.

Earlier, Ghani said that the construction of new higher education directorate was urgently required since the old one building was located in a very congested area where the public could not easily access it.

The advisor on higher education disclosed that that cost of the new building, which sprawls over 16 kanals of land, was Rs90.7 million.

He added that eight kanals had been reserved for the building while the remaining eight Kanals had been reserved for a car park and a garden.

Ghani further said that the director general of higher education and other senior officials would include provisions for setting up a solar farm to run the directorate on clean energy in the upcoming budget.

Further, the advisor disclosed that for the first time the provincial government was mulling plans to make the admission process in colleges across the province digital so that student could easily fill in their applications without having to purchase prospectus.

He hoped that with the new system, the complaints of favouritism and bribery and embezzlement in the registration process would be addressed.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2017.