LOWER DIR: Pakistan Peoples Party provincial chief Humayun Khan said on Tuesday that the 2018 general election was converted into ‘selection’ on the election night in order to impose the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government on the nation.

He said that days of the ‘selected’ government were numbered as the nation was not ready to tolerate it anymore.

He expressed these views while addressing a party function at Badwan here. He also announced that a protest rally under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Movement would be held in Batkhela, Malakand, on Jan 11.

Mr Humayun said that results of the 2018 general elections in several constituencies were changed at night. He alleged that hundreds of houses owned by poor people were razed, but the ‘illegal’ house of Imran Khan at Banigala was regularised. He added that the government was defending corrupt mafias to advance its own interests.

The PPP leader said that salaries of the prime minister and president were increased by 400 per cent while the low-income employees had been ignored during the last two years.

Welcoming the JI activists, including former provincial minister advocate Muzaffar Said, he said that people were supporting PPP and it would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He asked the PPP workers to fully participate in Jan 11 PDM proposed rally in Batkhela, which would be addressed by its top leadership.

MOU WITH TURKISH VARSITY: The University of Malakand (UoM) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mugle Sitki Kocman University (MSKU), Turkey, for researchers’ grant programme.

Delegates from Turkey, including Prof Alhan Tarimer, Boseen Groler and Prof Huseyin Guruler, visited the varsity.

UoM vice-chancellor Prof Dr Gul Zaman briefed the delegates about the varsity’s programmes. He said the MoU with the Turkish university would help improve quality of education in Pakistan. The VC pledged to have faculty and students’ exchange programme with the Turkish universities and strengthen social, cultural and economic relationships between the two brotherly nations.

BOOK LAUNCHED: Speakers at a function held in Talash on Tuesday asked poets and writers to utilise their energies for promotion of peace and harmony.

The function was arranged by ‘PakhtoAdabi Bandar’, a literati body that has no traditional office-bearers at Ziarat Talash. A Pashto poetry book ‘Jolai Jolai Cheena’ of poet Fazal Hakim Andaleeb was launched during the function. Former provincial ministers Mehmood Zeb and Muzaffar Syed, researcher Prof Dr Haneef Khalil and others spoke on the occasion.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020