Rooting out dishonesty: PTI MPA to protest against corruption in K-P cabinet

Javed Naseem says individuals not following party principles have no place in PTI


Umer Farooq September 26, 2014

PESHAWAR: Adding to the internal rifts developing in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a party’s MPA in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Javed Naseem, has announced a sit-in at Peshawar Cantonment against corrupt ministers in the provincial cabinet.

“The party’s chairman has taken a stand against corruption in the country. I am a Khan loyalist and cannot tolerate corruption,” Naseem told The Express Tribune on Thursday. “For this reason we have decided to start by uprooting corruption from the provincial cabinet,” said the MPA.

He added a number of “upstanding” MPAs will be alongside him at the sit-in and the demonstration will not end until dishonest elements are booted out from the cabinet.

Naseem said the PTI promised people a corruption-free environment in return for their votes and now it was time to deliver. “We will keep our word,” Naseem assured.

Individuals who are not following the party’s principles have no place in PTI, maintained Naseem.

When contacted, the provincial government spokesperson Ishtiaq Urmar said the party had zero tolerance for corruption and will never allow such practices in the province. However, he added the issue should be discussed in the parliamentary committee, which is the proper forum.

“I am sure the party chairman receives several complaints. However, we will not support Naseem’s sit-in since there is a forum to take up such matters and we have our own monitoring system in place,” Urmar said.

Elected from PK-3, Naseem, along with 13 other MPAs, has been struggling against corrupt elements in the provincial assembly and cabinet.

Earlier, 14 disgruntled members of the K-P Assembly formed a group and put pressure on the provincial government to remove corrupt elements from the cabinet. This ultimately led to the PTI government parting ways with its allies, the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), when two of the latter’s ministers were sacked for alleged corruption.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2014.

COMMENTS (6)

Usama | 9 years ago | Reply

True democracy.

roarwali | 9 years ago | Reply

@Shuaib: The way Election tribunal settle or discharge cases, they should be brought to SC to settle the twenty five thousands cases pending in the SC. What an efficiency for the ignorant!

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