Failure of PTI in Sindh LG polls just a trailer: Kundi.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Faisal Karim Kundi Tuesday said that failure of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the second phase of the local government elections in Sindh was just a trailer; the movie is still there.

'The way people of Karachi and Hyderabad took revenge from PTI in this election, the people of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are going to do the same in future', he said in a presser along with the Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Shazia Marri.

Criticizing PTI for their allegations of rigging in the election, the SAPM said that PTI should highlight this issue at a proper forum if they think the rigging took place in real.

He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was handed over to PTI as a peaceful province but it, through ineffective policies and incompetence, has brought the province to the verge of default.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has no funds to pay salaries of the government employees, he said.

Kundi added that PTI did not fulfill its promises to turn South Punjab into a province and develop the area.

The way Chairman PPP, Bilawal Bhutto pursued a prudent foreign policy to rectify the strained relation with different countries reflect his political and diplomatic wisdom.

Faisal Kundi informed that a dynamic survey will start this month under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to register more poor households.

The preparations for the launching of the dynamic survey have been entered into the final stages and the survey would be launched this month.

He also conveyed that the first quarterly installment of Benazir Kafalat programme has been released and the payment process was being carried out smoothly across the country.

Around 7.7 million families would receive over Rs. 55 billion in the first tranche...

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