Provincial President, ANP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Aimal Wali Khan has said that Audit Report 2016-17 on the Departments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has revealed the misappropriation of Rs 8 billion and regularities to the tone of Rs 53 billion.

Addressing different public and corner meetings during his fifth day of organizational visit to District Swabi at Chota Lahore, he said that the silence of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) over the matter confirming that the anti-graft agency that is established in the name of accountability is making ground for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He said that NAB is active in Punjab and Sindh and making arrests from these provinces, while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa all the anti-graft agencies including NAB have kept mum over the corruption of the PTI government.

The provincial leader of ANP said that in past corruption allegations were made against ANP, but today the audit report regarding their own government speaks of the bungling and misappropriations to the tone of billions of rupees. The situation, he said speaks of the dual standard of PTI. He said that PTI has not only pushed the province towards corruption rather today the provincial government is also lacking any advocate for its rights at federal level. He said that during the last three years, federal government had not paid a single penny of arrears in head of net hydel profit.

Aimal Wali Khan said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa owes a huge amount of Rs 500 billion to federal government while other resources of the province are also being occupied by the centre. He said that even in such situation, the provincial government is claiming all federal ministers are Pakhtuns.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019