The PTI leader maintained the new K-P government would implement policies which would end corruption and bring investors back to the province. PHOTO: FILE
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government will extend its support to the federal government regarding initiatives for establishing peace in the region and solving the country’s power crisis.
Speaking at a tea party given in his honour by the Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Wednesday, PTI Provincial General Secretary Shaukat Yousafzai on Wednesday claimed the previous provincial governments had carried out flawed policies, due to which the new government would face a number of challenges.
The PTI leader maintained the new K-P government would implement policies which would end corruption and bring investors back to the province.
Yousafzai, a veteran journalist, who was previously president of the PPC and Khyber Union of Journalist (KhUJ), is the first reporter to be elected as an MPA in K-P’s history.
Addressing his former colleagues, who included senior journalists and writers, Yousafzai said the province was rich in natural and human resources. “Due to the previous government’s mismanagement and ill-planning, little progress has been made to utilise these resources for the development of K-P and its people,” he added.
“We will carve out investor friendly policies which will help bring back businesses which left due to insecurity and rampant corruption in government departments,” he said. “There are mafias in the form of unions operating in government departments along with corrupt officials, who we will take on as a challenge.”
Yousafzai said reforms in health and education sectors would be the PTI’s top priorities, adding a seven percent increase would be made in the fiscal budget for these departments.
Regarding the problems faced by working journalists, the party leader said PTI’s government would implement wage board awards and also ensure press freedom and journalists’ security.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 23rd, 2013.
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Mr. Asad Umar said,"When ever PML(N) adopts policies in favour of general public they will have PTI's full support." He did not say an out right support all the time.