Center orders KP chief secy to ensure state machinery not used in PTI protest

The Ministry of Interior has ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief secretary to make sure that the provincial government does not use the province’s resources as well as its officials and other employees for the PTI’s November 24th protest, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Thursday. 

The ministry has conveyed these directives to the chief secretary in a letter.

KP governor says APC will be held on KP situation   

Meanwhile, KP Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said on Thursday that given the fact that the provincial government had failed to restore law and order in the province’s restive areas, an All Parties Conference (APC) would be held at Governor’s House, Peshawar in the first week of December so that all parties could find a way out of the present predicament.  “Our army’s personnel are laying down their lives on a daily basis. But the KP government is tightlipped,” Kundi said, adding he had already several letters to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other senior federal government officials on the subject.

The governor said that KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur used to say that the Pakistan Army should leave the province. “Then he announced he would himself go to Afghanistan to hold negotiations with the Taliban on situation in his province. But neither it is my desire nor of the people of the province.”

The question was, he went on to say, whether the provincial police had the resources to fight terrorism which the army had. “We are proud of our police. But the fact is that the Force does not have the required capacity to take on terrorists on its own,” Kundi said.

Reporter: Ahmad Mansoor