DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman claimed on Saturday that the government had diverted Rs24 billion of the Rs27 billion CPEC funds to other development projects in the country and suspended the corridor project for one year.

Speaking at a press conference here, he also said that the government borrowings had reached Rs15 billion a day in order to run its day-to-day affairs.

The JUI-F chief said that the government was deceiving the people by saying that terrorism had been eliminated.

He said that the law and order situation had deteriorated to the point that innocent people were being killed in targeted shootings in the country.

He said that the National Accountability Bureau had degenerated into an institution of victimisation of political opponents. He said that due to inefficiency of the present government all its institutions had started deteriorating. He said that the government’s wrong policies and misplaced priorities had caused discontent in the bureaucracy.

He said that JUI-F workers had always offered sacrifices for defence of the country’s ideological and geographical frontiers. He alleged that the present government and its ministers were out to destroy the ideological identity of the country.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman claimed that the government’s ministers were spoiling unity among the people in the face of aggressive designs of India by issuing irresponsible statements. He said that the entire nation stood by the country’s armed forces and would foil the designs of anti-Pakistan forces.

JUI-F parliamentary party leader in the KP Assembly, Maulana Lutfur Rehman, was also present on the occasion.

Published in Dawn, March 10th, 2019