PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Friday introduced a probe into the monetary and administrative strikes of the final caretaker authorities within the province.
“We handed the 2023–24 funds, together with expenditure by the caretakers, simply to make sure the system capabilities easily, however we are going to get all steps of the caretakers relating to monetary and administrative issues, together with appointments, probed by a committee of this home to test their legality,” Mr Gandapur informed the meeting in a sitting chaired by Speaker Babar Saleem Swati.
The chief minister stated the political events that “facilitated” the caretaker authorities in delaying the Feb 8 elections ought to mend their methods.
He criticised opposition events within the province for preserving mum over a crackdown on the PTI leaders and employees and their households, and the violation of the Structure and the regulation after May 9 protests, and warned that would occur to them as effectively.
Says centre denying funds to province
Mr Gandapur stated the election outcomes have been sufficient to silence the critics of the PTI governments within the centre and provinces.
He stated the PTI-backed candidates gained the polls regardless of being denied a degree enjoying subject.
The chief minister complained that the centre paid Rs300 billion lower than the routine annual funding to the province within the present fiscal yr, however even then, the province would pay Rs96 billion from its surplus funds to the centre by June 30 in keeping with loan conditions set by the Worldwide Financial Fund.
He claimed that regardless of promise, the federal authorities was not paying funds for the event of merged tribal districts, whose residents rendered nice sacrifices, together with displacement, for peace.
“We wish Rs50 billion dues cleared for the event of merged districts inside two months. If this doesn’t occur, then we’ll be left with no alternative however to transcend what they [centre] declare our irresponsible conduct,” he stated.
Mr Gandapur additionally complained that the centre didn’t present the province with its due share within the federal divisible pool to battle terrorism.
He stated there was a restrict to requests for funds and clearance of dues.
The chief minister warned the centre in opposition to taxing the erstwhile federally and provincially administered tribal areas with out taking stakeholders, together with the provincial authorities, on board.
“You [the federal government] have messed with the flawed man and do not know about it,” he stated.
Mr Gandapur stated the subsequent funds can be meant for creating enterprise alternatives within the province as a substitute of the availability of jobs in authorities departments.
He stated the treasury had sufficient members within the provincial meeting for laws however needed to take the opposition alongside.
The chief minister stated he would proceed combating for the rights of the province and wouldn’t let Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration have easy crusing within the occasion of the denial of these rights.
“No person can cease us from claiming our province’s rights. We’ll make no compromise on them,” he stated.
In response to the speech of the chief minister, Chief of the Opposition Dr Ibadullah Khan accused the federal government of double normal and stated on one hand, the treasury didn’t personal the funds for 2023–24, however on the opposite, it handed it.
He stated a correct discussion board was out there for the redressal of grievances over the Feb 8 election’s outcomes.
“We’re prepared for a ballot probe,” he stated.
Earlier, Dr Ibadullah stated the supplementary funds was from the final PTI authorities’s funds for the monetary yr 2022–23.
He stated the province needed to clear big sums of debt, and people who didn’t know the best way to pay these money owed at all times got here up with supplementary budgets.
The opposition chief stated he wasn’t against the Sehat Card medical insurance programme however needed the utilisation of funds correctly audited.
He stated if the chief minister needed to battle for the province’s rights, he ought to take again the Fata Home handed over by former prime minister Imran Khan to some quarters.
Dr Ibadullah stated because the prime minister, Imran Khan was the primary individual to vote for the imposition of taxes within the federally and provincially administered tribal areas.
He stated he, as an MNA, and his brother, Amir Muqam, because the then federal cupboard member, rejected that transfer.
Finance minister Aftab Alam Afridi informed the home {that a} supplementary funds was tabled in the home when the precise funds was revised or prices escalated.
He stated the opposition chief didn’t know that the caretaker setup was there for eight months however stayed put from January 2023 to February 2024, together with six months of the monetary yr 2022–23.
The chair later put up the sitting till 2pm on Monday.
Printed in Daybreak, Could 18th, 2024