Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has said that since the change of government at center, the provincial government has been facing serious problems with regard to release of funds and other matters related to the federal government. “
Developmental funds to the tune to Rs. 17 billion for Newly Merged Districts have been withheld by the federal government” he regretted and added that efforts were also underway to exclude development projects of the province from federal PSDP and It is feared that the provincial government will have to face problems regarding gas in coming days.
Mahmood Khan made it clear that he had taken the oath to safeguard the rights of the province; and as chief executive of the province, he will make no compromise on the rights of the province and go to any extant for the purpose.
He expressed these views while addressing the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected cabinet of District Bar Association Peshawar on Wednesday.
The chief minister said that the province belonged to everyone living here, whatever political party we belong to; we all must have to unite for the rights of the province.
He urged upon lawyer community to come forward and support the provincial government in its legal and constitutional struggle to protect the rights of the province.
He termed the lawyer community as an important segment of the society and said that lawyer community had played an important role in the struggle for democracy and independence of judiciary in the country and hoped that they will also play their effective role in the struggle for real independence of the country.
Earlier, talking to media representatives during his visit to Khyber Teaching Hospital, the chief minister said that imported Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in his speech in Shangla the other day talked about the provision of free treatment facilities to the people of the province.
He lamented the ignorance of the Prime Minister and said that the provincial government had already been providing free treatment facilities to the cent percent population of the province for the last two years.
He further stated that the provincial government was also providing flour to its people on subsidized rate of Rs. 800 per 20 kg under Ramadan package adding the provincial government has decided to extend this package up to 30th June 2022.
Responding to a question, the chief minister sarcastically said that if Shahbaz Sharif returns the looted money to the national exchequer, he will not have to sell his clothes for providing flour to the masses.
Responding to another question, the chief minister has termed the statement of Shahbaz Sharif regarding flour smuggling across the border as completely baseless and said that if there was anything then Shahbaz Sharif should have to ask his own institutions instead of blaming the provincial government because all the institutions having the control of border were under federal government.
“These people were calling the people of this province as smuggler” Mahmood Khan expressed his concerns and made it clear to them that people of this province were not smugglers but the guards of border adding that we have rendered many sacrifices for the country.
