JUIF threatens KPK cabinet will not be allowed to conduct session in Landikotal

By Ashrafuddin Pirzada

LANDIKOTAL:  Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl(JUI-F) Khyber district chapter leaders on Wednesday that they will closed Peshawer-Landikotal road and would stage a protest against the expected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP) provincial assembly’s cabinet session scheduled in Landikotal tehsil on Thirsday.

Talking to a press conference held in Landikotal press club, JUI-F leader Mufti Mohammad Ejaz Shinwari said that KPK and federal governments first fullfil their pledges made with the militancy hit erstwhile FATA residents.He said the so-called FATA merger was not acceptable to ten million tribal people.He said those who used FATA for their to gain their iwn benefits for the last two decades imposed the decision on them. He threatened to block Pak-Afghan highway so that to they could halt the expected session of KP assembly’ cabinet being held Landikotal. He added that his party and majority of the tribal people had not accepted the so-called merger of Fata into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“If PTI assure them to announce any mega project for Khyber district then they will welcome the session otherwise they will allow photo session here”, Mufti maintained.

Mufti said the government should create jobs opportunities in tribal belt rather than to mislead youths through hollow promises. HE added that Landikotal residents were deprived of basic facilities since the independence this country and they need developmental projects in the area, he maintained.

He said PTI government has spent around 100 billion rupees on a Rapid bus-service in Peshawar while on the other hand, Landikotal residents have been suffering potable water issue for the last many decades. He said that the current government was not willing to spare a few core rupees to launch a small project to address the water problem in Landikotal, Mufti Ejaz criticized.

He threatened to stage protest demonstration and block Pak-Afghan highway in Landikotal to block all kinds of entry into Landikotal tehsil on Thursday.

It is to be mention here that on the direction of the Prime Minister Imran Khan, KP assembly cabinet is going to hold its session in Landikotal for the first time in the country’s history.

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