The Politics of Forward Blocs in PTI and the government of KPK

The recent forward bloc in the KPK Provincial Assembly has yet another time proved (Ref: 90s Forward Blocs) that politics is a big business. 14 MPAs of the ruling PTI government put their demands to party chairman by submitting their resignations. Insiders int he PTI claimed that most of the tickets were sold during the last general elections and most of the elected MPAs are of the same category by paying millions of rupees to people in the provincial and central leadership in the hope of getting higher returns once they get elected to the assembly. Currently some of the wealthy contractors with almost no qualification; have become ministers and advisers and most were ignored in the power game which full of money making. This made some MPs annoyed by getting ignored and their reaction is very clear; they want a return on their invested capital in the form of development funds, advisory and ministerial positions. This will guarantee a huge return monetarily on their invested money.

PTI has proved to be a typical traditional Pakistani political party. The Chairman is already hijacked in the Tareen Airline (an aircraft and a chopper dedicated by Jehangir Tareen to IK) as he has lost contact with the workers and supporters. IK has ignored to develop PTI as an ideological party and the result will be PTIs voters can be of anyone in the future. The trailer was given in the by-elections in Mian Wali and Peshawar where PTI lost its voters in a span of three months time.


 IK skype and google speeches are no more of value as their voters and workers needs them to deliver instead of making noise. The Sehat ka Insaf program, educational reforms, municipality, security and administration of the province are some of the biggest failures of the Khattak government. Even Khattak government has failed to give driving licenses to the people due to the clashes between the traffic police and the transport department which is a mere an executive order issue. From last 6 months, there is no single license issued by the traffic police and the people are getting a very non sense excuse of unavailability of paper for printing the cards while in real they are in tussle with the transport department and the people who get a license from the transport department, it is not accepted by the traffic police.

Same is the case with other departments, there is a complete haphazard like situation with full of confusion. Many projects were delayed for more than six months due to the introduction of consultancy services as monitoring body of the development projects. Now in April, they have issued all the tenders at once in hazardous situation that they itself have no clue of how to spend the current fiscal year budget.

PTI is not only in great pressure as a political organization but their government performance is also poor. In this type of situation, more pressure groups will be developed in the future.