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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Pervez Khattak requests militants to bring peacePESHAWAR: Pervez Khattak, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s designated chief minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) assembly has said that his party is ready to “respect” the Taliban, if that is what they want.
“We don’t talk of Talibanisation. We say terrorism is there in the province. We do not know who is behind it. Whosoever is involved in terrorism, we request them that there should be peace in the province. Whatever respect they want we are ready to give them. We are ready to reintegrate them into society,” he said on Saturday.
“We will work together with Mian Nawaz Sharif in federation to eliminate terrorism from the country,” he added.
Responding to a question he said, “we have come here with the agenda to establish peace through dialogue. We are ready to talk to all political forces and concerned people from tribal areas through a jirga or whatever other ways there are,” said Khattak.
About his newly elected team he said, “youth have stood up for bringing about change. The experienced people have not developed the province and they devastated it. These youth will bring change,” he stressed.
“Education stands destroyed. Hospitals stand destroyed. We have bureaucracy like unbridled horse. There is rampant corruption. Nothing is ok. It will endeavour to set-up a role model government,” he claimed. online
PTI to work for good governance: The designated Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khan Khattak has assured that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf would introduce a new system of good governance where people’s opinion would be honoured.
He stated this while addressing a joining ceremony of newly elected provincial assembly members Shah Muhammad Khan and Farid Khan, who fought the election as independents but have now joined the PTI.
General Secretary, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Shaukat Yousafzai was also present on this occasion. Independent candidate from PK-62 Kohistan, Abdul Khaliq has already announced joining the PTI, taking the party’s strength to 37.
The designated chief minister has assured that PTI government would never disappoint the people and would live up to their expectations. He said the slogan, which the PTI chairman announced of making the province a role model would be implemented.
The designated chief minister warned that corruption would not be tolerated at any cost under any circumstances and anyone involved in corruption would be dealt with iron hands. He said that the backward areas would be developed on a priority basis, bringing them at par with the developed areas. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk