KP govt criticized by own legislators for ignoring NMDs in budget, unjust distribution of funds.

PESHAWAR -- The tribal members from both sides of the divide in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday slammed the provincial government for not allocating any considerable amount in the annual budgets for the merged districts.

The parliamentarians, while announcing boycott of the proceedings of the budget session, staged a walkout from KP Assembly to protest against non allocation of funds especially in the big development schemes including health card by the provincial government.

During the assembly proceedings chaired by Deputy Speaker Mahmood Jan and Panel of the Chairman Idrees Khattak, Provincial Minister for Zakat and Usher Anwar Zeb said that the tribal people were being kept deprived of their basic rights, even the 3G and 4G mobile services were not restored in tribal areas despite repeated promises.

He said that tribal people have the right on the federal and provincial resources but unfortunately both the governments were ignoring the merged areas.

Criticizing his own PTI government in the province, the minister said that no development scheme was completed even in his own constituency, adding only Rs 40 million were released out of a total 1.32billion rupees.

He threatened to quit his ministry, saying that it was useless to remain a part of the cabinet if he could not get development schemes for his people.

PTI's MPA Nasirullah Wazir from South Waziristan Wana also lashed out at the provincial government for overlooking the tribal people in health sector and said that a very little amount was allocated for merged districts.

"The federal government had already asked provincial government to adjust the tribal people in the health sector, why did it not allocated budget for them,' Nasirullah Wazir questioned.

He announced to surrender all his perks and privileges and advised to use this amount for granting health card facility to the tribal people.

He also deplored the use of word 'NMD' for the merged district in the budget document and said that it gave an impression that still the merged districts were not accepted, adding that since the erstwhile FATA had been merged into KP they why was the reason of this discrimination?

He warned to launch a movement...