Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has issued a white paper to expose what it called the poor performance of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The paper is based on the research of Marvi Memon, chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting.
Titled A Great Betrayal in the Name of Change, the white paper provides a comparative analysis of the PTI provincial government with that of the PML-N government in Punjab.
Memon, talking to reporters along with Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, claimed that PTI had badly failed to deliver in the north-western province.
She said in order to divert the attention of the people the PTI’s leadership resorted to sit-ins in Islamabad to “disturb the whole democratic system in the country.”
Rashid said the PTI government should have made Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a model province, but instead the party leadership spent all their time criticising others.
He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister has been at the sit-in in Islamabad for the last 40 days completely ignoring the people of his province.
Replying to a question, the Information Minister said the government does not want to use force against participants of the sit-ins because their leaders are using women and children as human shields.
Pakistani media, in reports from New York, quoted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as saying on Thursday that all political parties were united in upholding democracy and are for the supremacy of the Constitution in the country.
Sharif, who was addressing the Pakistani community in New York, said that those staging sit-ins against his government had made ambitious plans but the nation did not support them.
He said that the government is fully functional despite the protests while those opposing it had failed.
Nawaz said that his party participated in the 2013 general elections as an opposition party, adding that rigging allegations against the PMLN were baseless.