Rival parties slam PTI’s 100-day plan

Question technicalities, call it an attempt to fool people

Politicians belonging to mainstream political parties on Monday said that the 100-day plan floated by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf was not viable for implementation, calling it “another attempt by the party to hoodwink masses in the name of change” ahead of the general election 2018.

Parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly Sardar Aurangzaib Nalota said the pledges for reforms in social, economic, taxation and diplomacy sectors, creation of South Punjab province, 10 million jobs for youth and five million houses did not match ground realities and were impossible to implement upon.

While terming the plan a ‘jugglery of words’, Nalota said PTI chief Imran Khan had made tall claims of bringing change during the first 90 days of his government in K-P but failed to do so even in his party's five-year rule in the province.

"Imran Khan had claimed planting one billion trees in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but failed in that regard too," he said, adding that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had taken notice of the ‘massive corruption’ in PTI's billion-tree tsunami project which exposed the good governance claims of the party that came into power in the name of change.

"In spite of enjoying full powers in K-P till date, the PTI has failed to fulfil promises made by Imran during 2013 election campaign, and the problems of people and rampage of corruption continued in the province," added Nalota.

ANP leader and former provincial minister Wajid Ali said most points of the PTI's 100-day plan were unworkable and called it an election stunt. PTI leadership had also given a 90-day plan for K-P ahead of 2013 general election but failed to implement it even in five years, he said, adding that it should be ready to face people's wrath in 2018 general election.

The ANP leader said the PTI had a habit of criticising opponents for inauguration of uncompleted projects but was now itself inaugurating an incomplete Swat Motorway for political advantage ahead of 2018 election.

"Peshawar is converted into ditches and trenches, and environmental and traffic chaos continues due to ill planning of metro project by the PTI," he said, adding that billions of rupees worth of taxpayers money spent on the beautification of Peshawar was wasted by the ruling party.



"Imran Khan had made claims of eliminating corruption but failed to control it in the province," he said, adding the PTI chairman had leveled serious corruption allegations against his own 20 MPAs during Senate election and his party was now facing great difficulty in passing the K-P budget after losing majority in the assembly.

Veteran PPP leader and former senior minister Rahimdad Khan also said that most of the points of the PTI’s 100-day plan were not based on ground realities and could not be implemented.

Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique, in a series of tweets, termed the plan a pack of lies. Rafique took jibes at the party’s tall promises of job opportunities, housing schemes, forestation and construction of 350 dams in the province.

He criticised the PTI government in K-P for its ‘failure’ to control polio in the province. He said the provincial government gave up on fighting with dengue without even trying.

Rafique further mocked the plan and said that ‘rats’ were eating out Khan’s rule in the province.