Hussain lashed out at the PTI, accusing it of staging such protests to conceal their failure. PHOTO: FILE
The Awami National Party (ANP) on Monday criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government for announcing to protest against power outages.
“The PTI announcement is nothing but a drama to gain public sympathies ahead of by-polls in the province,” said ANP provincial spokesperson Mian Iftikhar Hussain.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s provincial secretariat, Hussain lashed out at the PTI, accusing it of staging such protests to conceal their failure to end load-shedding. He said instead of protesting on streets, the PTI should have raised the issue at more appropriate platforms.
“If the provincial government sincerely wants to raise the load-shedding issue with the federal government, platforms such as the Council of Common Interests (CCI) and apex court are more suitable,” he said adding, “The chief minister must take other parties into confidence on the issue.”
Hussain alleged the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has presented false statistics for the past 30 years and failed to take any measures to develop the outdated infrastructure.
The former information minister also blamed the PTI for failing to stop drone attacks and suspending Nato supplies.
It was announced at the conference that Hussain has been appointed head of the provincial election committee, which will coordinate with the district and tehsil level leadership to muster support for ANP candidates in the by-polls.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2013.
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You had 5 years and did non of the things you are complaining about. Now its their turn if they don't deliver,then people will deal with them. Let's see what they do or don't achive by the end of their term.
lol @ PTI haters! they are here for 5 yrs. sabr se kaam len. you'll have plenty of time and occasions to criticize them.
It's amazing how ANP has started criticizing PTI government in the first 60 days of their tenure. Mian Iftekhar should not misguide people with false propaganda. They ruled KPK for full 5 years including in the center also and gave people nothing but scandals of corruption and terrorism. Give PTI first 6 months to launch their agenda. If they fails, then this will be the only time they will get elected. Lets be fair and give them a chance.
PTI politics can not go beyond jalsas and dharnas. now that they are faced with the problems of governance and feel the heat of it they run to their favorite play grounds "Dharnas" to cool off. I as a peshawerite ask you Mr Chief Minister KPK, what change have you brought to peshawar? forget about the rest of the province. No traffic signal works and dont look at those which are maintained by the cantonment board, 2/3rd land of peshawar is a stinking heap of rubbish, no traffic rules around not even lane discipline could be enforced. these are the problems that if one person in government gets serious, it will not take more than two days to fix things. The bigger problems of the province which you know but forget them for a while. just solve the problems i mentioned above and i am sure it will need only one director from PDA and one traffic DSP. Only slogans and protests will not do any good to the people of KPK.
The very reasons due to which PTI used to criticise the ANP government in KPK still exist, albeit with more force in the province.
He is showing PTI the mirror, in which the PTI looks horrible.