PPP seeks action over sugar, fuel, wheat crises.

PESHAWAR -- The Pakistan Peoples Party on Thursday asked the government to fulfil its commitment of taking action against all those involved in sugar, petrol and wheat crises and controlling unemployment and inflation for the relief of the poor people.

PPP provincial general secretary Faisal Karim Kundi told a presser here that the PTI had been ruling Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for seven years but it had failed to complete a single mega project.

Accompanied by PPP provincial information secretary Senator Rubina Khalid, Peoples Doctors Forum's representative Dr Amjad and other leaders, Mr Kundi flayed the ruling PTI over failure to launch the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit project despite massive spending.

He said President Dr Arif Alvi, too, had called for the accountability of those involved in the alleged misappropriation of project funds.

The PPP leader also complained about a long delay in the construction of Swat Expressway and said cracks had appeared in the road even before its inauguration exposing the government's incompetence.

He said the PTI government was in the habit of making things controversial to hide its weaknesses and that was why it attempted to create doubts about the Uzair Baloch JIT report.

Mr Kundi demanded of the government to make public the reports of probe into SP Tahir Dawar killing, sugar and wheat crises, Sahiwal 'encounter' and alleged irregularities in Malam Jabba and BRT projects.

He said the people wanted to know facts about the spending of huge funds on the beautification of Peshawar, BRT project, campaign against Covid-19 pandemic and different schemes in the province.

'It seems as if there is no government in KP and all government affairs in the province are...