Daily Times

PESHAWAR: The central leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has opted Sajida Zulfiqar, Member of National Assembly (MNA), for the task to resolve the women-wing reservations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Women Wing representatives, having complaints against the regional presidents of KP for violating merit in the appointments for different cabinets.

The representatives of the women wing have been urged to come forward to stop the regional presidents of the KP regions from (including their near and dears) candidates in the cabinets of the mother women wing.

According to sources the women leaders of the wing accused the regional and districts presidents for surpassing the deserved women workers for the cabinet membership across the KP.

The move came at the same time when around 40 members of the PTI in the district Peshawar council locked their horns with the district president of Peshawar for biased and blue-eyed appointments for the cabinet of town four and one. Jehandad Khan, District President Peshawar on 28-11-2016 issued a notification of Irfan Saleem as a General Secretary, Meena Khan as a President and Kishwar Zaman as the senior vice president of the Town-One.

The notification triggered anger among the district council representatives and they are moving to submit a requisition of a vote-of no-confidence against the district Nazim Peshawar.

Members of the councils had also raised reservation over the president for violating the merit and deserving candidates in the nomination process.

The members have also informed the central leadership and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak for the reversal of district president’s allegedly biased decisions for the cabinet of Town-one cabinet.

Considering the issue serious, harmful for the party stack and reputation KP assembly lawmakers of PTI formally informed the central leadership that mostly, women workers of the party remained on the front line during the sit-ins with men but they were being ignored and sidelined in the nomination process for cabinet membership.

It was shared with the central leadership that the numbers of devotees and workers of the PTI had left the party due to the biased decisions of the regional presidents of the province.

The KP assembly member wishing not to be be named said that members had formally discussed the issue with leaders of the PTI and the core committee at a meeting.

It was stated that anti workers policies in the province were highly injurious and causing the unity of the workers including men and women and therefore party leaders should come forward with prompt actions for the better interest of the party. Therefore, the central leadership at first hand appointed Sajjida Zulfiqar to set up a committee for resolving the burgeoning issues of the KP women wing and report to the core committee immediately, while Pervez Khattak was told to tackle the district council Peshawar issue.

However, the issue among the district council representatives with district president Jehandad Khan and district Nazim Asim Khan still persist over the alleged merit-less nomination process.

The long delayed intra party election of the PTI has caused major differences among the leaders and workers of the PTI in the KP, the nomination process for the different cabinets and women wing further fueled the situation in the province.

Sajjida Zulfiqar confirmed her appointment with the apparent task to sort all outstanding issues of the women wing with the regional presidents. “She has been asked by the central leadership to bring forth deserving and educated candidates in the nomination process by endorsing the policy of merit in the selection process,” Sajida Begum added.

PTI’s KP government criticized: The leader of the PML-N Sardar Orangzeb Nalotha, MPA, on Sunday said that despite the tall claims of development and good governance in Khyber Phaktunkhawa (KP), Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf had failed to deliver to the masses.

Sardar Orangzeb Hazara said that the PTI also disappointed ts staunch supporters as no developmental work had been started in Hazara region while being a opposition party in the province the PML-N had initiated many mega projects with the help of the federal government.

He said that the PTI government had also failed to provide traffic solutions in Abbottabad city where the people desperately need a bypass.

Nalotha disclosed that during the year 2013-14 the ANP government passed Rs 940 million in the Annual Development Programmer (ADP) for the

construction of Abbottabad bypass. Unfortunately the PTI government shifted that amount to Haripur and Noshera.

Sardar Orangzeb Nalotha stated that soon the National Highway Authoerity (NHA) would start the widening of Karakoram Highway (KKH) project in Abbottabad city from Fawara Chowk to Abbottabad Public School and it would also resolve the traffic congestion issue in the city.