PPP lashes out at governor for having two slots

F.P Report

PESHAWAR: Provincial President Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Hamayun Khan and former Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Masud Kausar have said that after appointment as Secretary General of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Governor KP Iftikhar Zaffar Jhagra is running his office unconstitutionally and illegally.

Addressing a press conference at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Monday, they alleged that Pakistan was already passing through various crises while PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif had intentionally created a new crisis by giving the slot of secretary general of the party to the Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which they added was tantamount to carry the country to anarchy.

President of Pakistan can’t have two posts, who is a symbol of the State not a political party, similarly, a governor can’t do so and it is the reason that every political party easily approaches to the governor, they added. “We thought, the governor KP will resign after becoming secretary general of his party, but he did not do so, and now the province is running without governor”, they alleged.

Flanked by Akbar Khan, Muzamil, Gohar, Azam Khan Afridi and others, they said that they would move to court against the governor KP and raise it at every platform that he (governor) had illegally and unconstitutionally two slots of to be governor of the province and secretary general of the party (PML-N).

Hamayun Khan said his party was only political party, which wanted supremacy of the constitution and law in the country and always condemned illegal step being taken earlier. He alleged that Nawaz Sharif wanted to pit institutions of the state against each other by taking illegal and unconstitutional steps and he added that a wrong tradition was adopted by the politicians taking politics in courts and constitution is discussed in public meetings.

“This is not our personal issue but the matter related to the constitution of Pakistan and its supremacy”, the PPP provincial president explained the party position.