PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislatures in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly are not keen on resigning from the provincial assembly, party insiders told The Express Tribune on Monday.
PTI provincial assembly members were in a defiant mood, insiders said while requesting anonymity. They added that “the chief minister and the speaker K-P assembly expressed their serious concerns on the decision during a meeting held in the federal capital.”
“Yes, the two, CM K-P and speaker K-P assembly resisted the idea of tendering resignations from the provincial assembly, instead they were of the view that they will form another government by taking 14 disgruntled members of PTI onboard,” insiders said.
Meanwhile, K-P Minister for Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani warned that his government could suspend the distribution of electricity to other parts of country from Tarbela Dam if the federal government tried to disconnect a single power connection to K-P.
Earlier Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif said that the government would disconnect power connections to those who refuse to pay their dues.
Talking to media persons on phone, Ghani said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) government in K-P would keep collecting taxes even though Imran Khan had announced the launch of a civil disobedience campaign.
Claiming that the K-P government was not the product of rigging and have a genuine mandate, the minister said that it would continue serving and collecting taxes.
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@Omre: If the KPK mandate is illegal or fake, why is everyone silent. Why dont they go to tribunal, and courts. Why dont they ask ECP to open the ballot boxes for verification? IK and PTI has always manitained that if anyone thinks that their mandate i fake, the yare ready for vote verification. IK has gone in to protest after exhausting all those options.so questioning their mandate is not fair
This is what will happen when decisions are made off the cuff. IK is not fit to be a leader. Cricket is about leading 10 other men but leading a nation is quite another thing.
Do u know Mr.minister KPK mandate is genuine?
PTI loves to form govt in center and each province. Why on earth they would resign from the only power they grabbed with the help of lotas and JI? The seats they lost was unfair not those they won to form KPK govt. Hold those seat, but what good are those that do not bring power in the center and other provinces?
Agree with comments above that pre poll rigging worked in IK's favour because taliban threat significantly curtailed leftist parties' ability to run an effective campaign but IK never mentions this point
Judging from the comments here three things are clear: . 1) There was no plan for the KPK ministers to resign, so all this hoolah about them not wanting to resign is irrelevant . 2) People, especially the commenters here, must have a sore backside by now, they have been commenting (wrongly) for days. Politics 101, public memory is short. Disaster this and that, and blunder etc. etc., this is the most innovative way of resigning from Parliament, where PTI was unfairly relegated to irrelevance by rigging, that we have ever seen. Pakistani politics have entered a new era. . 3) PTI insiders haven't told anything to ET.
A comedy of errors and bad judgement. So why is the government of KPK lawfully elected if the rest of the elections are a sham. It seems that PTI is really confused and Imran Khan has only humiliated himself. He is not fit to be a political leader and is only thinking about his ego. Such a man should never lead a nation. Imran Khan would cause the most damage to the country.
Actually, the PTI DID benefit from rigged elections. The taliban had threatened the more secular political parties such as ANP and PPP, and actively followed through on these threats. There wasn't a peep from IK or his party about the utterly undemocratic nature of these threats and attacks.
Imran Khan only remembers that which is in his favor.
KPK people are never united for anything. IK should have prepared for this day long ago. It take real serious commitment & belief in their leader's ability. Even not all TTP From there unanimously ever agreed on their deal with Army or the Pak Govt, PTI is nowhere near that united. I don't want to give my negative forecast but leave it on your luck IK.
IK trapped by his own words. What a child playing school politics. He needs to go on a holiday and clear his mind.
"Claiming that the K-P government was not the product of rigging and have a genuine mandate, the minister said that it would continue serving and collecting taxes."
why is the KPK mandate genuine and the rest not! weren't you part of the same elections? that your party does not recognise?
Claiming that the K-P government was not the product of rigging and have a genuine mandate, the minister said that it would continue serving and collecting taxes.
So who did conduct the elections in KPK, angles!!
I have learnt from IK is that politics is not game of cricket.
IK can't run his own party - how's he going to run the country?
Do something for kpk or else the people of kpk never vote for those who have not done anything up to their expectations.kindly check kpk political history. i bet IK would not win even half of their seats if they resign and contest again.
But...but...they resigned from ALL zero seats in Balochistan PA they had. Such sacrifice. much inquilab
@ahmed: Free to dream about a disaster on IK. Yesterday you were saying PTI will not tender National Assembly resignations. The resignations are announced by individual MNAs. The provincial assembly resignations can also come if NS continue to sleep and dream.
There is already a forward bloc(disgruntled group) of PTI in KPK assembly,with exception of very few all of them are first timers in assembly,under no circumstances would they be willing to leave their seat. JI ameer Siraj ul Haq also have categorically said that they won't allow KPK chief minister to dissolve govt(they too know all too well that JI has been in power after many years and it isn't necessary that if elections are held tomorrow then they might be able to come back in power or not.
This is party disobedience- be like good boys.
This is indeed the real test of PTI.
They will do there soon as , they will decide on KPK in few days dont conclude , it is first time in history first time in Pak some party r resigning from Assembly
"PTI members not keen on resigning from K-P assembly."
If you were in their place would give up all the perks and privileges voluntarily? Then there is a fat paycheck every month to be considered.
the split was going to happen and has happened.Ik is going to be isolated more and more.
ohh man what a disaster for IK