Islamabad:
The governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Faisal, Karim Kundi, said that the opposition issued a motion of non-confidence against chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur at a time when he guarantees a majority in the provincial assembly. “On the day an additional member joins us, we can make a non-confidence vote,” he said.
He made these remarks while speaking to journalists after a delegation from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) met Maulana Fazlur Rehman from Jamiat Ulema-Elam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Friday to deliberate a joint strategy for the next Senate elections in KP.
During the meeting, the two parties discussed possible cooperation in the competition of the Senate urns. The meeting underlined the need for coordination among the opposition parties to counter Pakistan in power Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) in the province.
The senior PPP official Khursheed Shah said that the elections were imminent and that the two parties intended to honor the arrangements previously agreed. “Each party has its mandate and we have had a long-standing relationship with Maulana Fazlur Rehman,” he noted.
Addressing the media after the meeting, Kundi stressed the electoral objectives of the PPP in the upper Chamber elections, saying that the party was aimed at five seats in the Senate in the province. “Our goal is that the Maulana Fazl group provides a general seat, while PPP will challenge a reserved seat,” he said.
Asked about the potential for political maneuver in the next surveys, Kundi replied: “The PPP will do its best to avoid horse trade”, while expressing the hope that the former democratic movement of Pakistan (PDM) would jointly contest the elections, saying: “We are trying to move forward.”
By approaching the political and broader security landscape, the Governor of KP criticized the governance of the PTI in the province, challenging the challenge of “naming a single stage or public establishment they have built”.
Commenting on the deterioration of the situation of public order in KP, he said: “The extremists generally come out after the Prayers of the ASR in the province”, referring to an increasing militant activity in recent months.
Kundi also discussed Thursday’s tragic incident in Balutchistan, where nine passengers were killed after being identified and separated according to their identity cards. He said that the whole nation should unite to restore peace.
He called on Indian participation in terrorist activities in Pakistan, declaring that New Delhi had intensified subversive actions after his military setbacks. “Eighty percent of terrorism in Pakistan comes from Afghan soil,” he said, warning that if Afghanistan continued to allow its territory to be used by hostile powers like Israel and India, it would be difficult to maintain peaceful links.
“Afghanistan must ensure that its land is not used by external forces against Pakistan,” he added.
