PTI, QWP, JI agree to form coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Qaumi Watan Party and Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday in principle agreed to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and vowed to jointly work for combating terrorism and overcoming other issues and challenges in the province. The formal announcement was made by PTI's nominee for the post of chief minister Pervez Khattak.
Briefing media persons at a joint press conference, he said that a consensus had been developed between partners on forming a coalition government in the province. Khattak said that establishing peace, ending corruption and immediately conducting local body polls would be top priorities of the PTI-led coalition government in the province. He said that implementing uniform education system across the province, providing better health facilities in government hospitals and police system reforms were also key objectives of the coalition government.
He said: "PTI's mission is to serve justice to all." He said that the coalition partners had agreed on a one-point agenda to strive for the development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its people who had been affected by lawlessness over the past five years. Regarding PTI's contacts with independent MPAs-elect for gaining their support, Khattak said that PTI and its coalition partners had secured majority in the provincial assembly needed for forming government in the province.
QWP Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and JI's Naib Ameer Sirajul Haq agreed that they respected PTI's mandate in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and decided in principle to form a coalition government. "Imran Khan had personally asked us to be partners in the government." Sherpao said that PTI's central leadership had endorsed an agenda presented by QWP and JI, after which they had decided to form the coalition government in the province.