Although the province faces unprecedented challenges, the new government will take its coalition parties on board and will successfully overcome the problems through collective efforts, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister-designate Pervaiz Khattak said on Wednesday.
Khattak was addressing a joint meeting of the members of the coalition parties after the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly members on Wednesday
JI’s Sirajul Haq, QWP’s Sikandar Sherpao, and AJI’s Shehram Tarakai were also present in the meeting.
Names of Asad Qaisar and Imtiyaz Qureshi were proposed for the position of the speaker and deputy speaker, which were unanimously approved by all parliamentary leaders and MPs.
Expressing gratitude to the coalition parties, Khattak said the new KP government would not be weak. He said he agreed that politics needed a lot of experience but it was evident the experienced ones had not delivered in the past. “The young and new faces will correct the system and will make the nation’s present and future better.”
Khattak said the province was facing a number of critical challenges therefore it could not bear any conflict, adding that the provincial government would take all measures for the development of the people through consultation and for this purpose he himself had met the opposition leaders and had invited them to cooperate with the government for reformation and development of the province.
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Meanwhile, Central PML-N leader Babar Saleem along with a 40-member delegation called on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister-designate at the Civil Officers Mess and announced that he and hundreds of his supporters would join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
PTI Central Vice President Azam Khan Swati, KP Assembly speaker-designate Asad Qaisar, PTI KP General Secretary Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, MNA Hamidul Haq, MPA Ziaullah Afridi and other MPs and political leaders were also present.
It may be recalled that Saleem was associated with the PML-N for a long time and had remained the party’s candidate from Mansehra. However, due to differences with his party, Saleem, on the call of Swati, had decided to join the PTI.
Saleem said he was greatly impressed with the vision of PTI Chairman Imran Khan and would now fully act in accordance with the PTI manifesto and would work for the welfare of the people.
He said the PTI had been turned into a national movement and the party’s main goal was to set up a corruption free-society.