Summary PTI and PML-N at logger heads with each other on the issue of IDPs as well.
LAHORE: (Web Desk - Dunya News) Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League (N) have a history of locking their horns with each other on every issue. The saga continues on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) issue too as Imran Khan is livid now over Federal Government for not dispersing funds for the IDPs.
Imran Khan has reiterated his demand that Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) must be declared a calamity hit area. He said that so far over nine hundred thousand IDPs have been registered in Bannu. There is a shortage of doctors and medicines in the hospitals and this may cause epidemics to break out in the region.
PTI Chief blamed the federal government of non-cooperation on the issue of IDPs and said that it was due to this attitude of the government that IDPs were living in such conditions.
“We have only heard of the Federal Government’s claims about the aid to the IDPs, we haven’t received it as yet”, he added further.
On the other hand, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcast Senator Pervaiz Rasheed has urged Imran Khan to give up on politics for a few days and look after the IDPs. Earlier today, Pervaiz Rasheed said that Imran Khan should have raised funds for the IDPs at this critical juncture instead of raising money for his party.
Expressing his concern over foreign funding to Imran Khan and PTI, Pervaiz Rasheed had said that various entities in the international community were ready to fund anything that destabilizes Pakistan’s institutions and democracy. He had warned Imran Khan of such people saying that he might well be playing in their hands, unknowingly.
Last week, when Imran Khan had criticized the government before the tribal leaders during his visit to Bannu, Pervaiz Rasheed had responded by saying that it was due to the Federal Government’s financial support to the IDPs that Imran Khan was able to stand between IDPs and tribal leaders.
Federal hospitals, PIMS and Polyclinic Hospital, have dispatched two mobile hospitals and team of 80 doctors and nurses along with medicine and surgical instruments.
