As a result of the February 8 general elections, the number of independent candidates supported by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is complete to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the party has also nominated the chief minister in the province.
Although PTI has claimed that it will form the government at the center as well, but looking at the number of members, this is apparently not possible, while on the other hand, the Muslim League-N and the Pakistan People’s Party have agreed to form a coalition government in the Federation and Balochistan. .
According to political analysts, PTI may face 2013-like problems to run the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the formation of the government of PML-N and People’s Party in the federation.
Like other provinces of Pakistan, more than half of the annual budget of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa depends on various funds received from the federal government.
If we estimate the budget of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the fiscal year 2022-23, out of a total of one trillion 13 billion rupees, more than 800 billion in provincial taxes, in terms of National Finance Commission, net profit of electricity and gas royalty. I was expecting to meet the federal government.
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In the past, the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has always complained to the federal government that the province does not get the money due to the federal government.
Mehmood Jan Babar, a senior journalist and analyst based in Peshawar, believes that the economic conditions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may deteriorate after the government of PTI’s staunch political opponents comes to power.
Speaking to Independent Urdu, he said: “On the one hand, the temperature has become very high due to differences between the PTI and the Muslim League-N and the People’s Party, and the federal government will not want the PTI government to succeed.” Give it.’
According to Mahmood Jan Babar: “Even when Mahmood Khan was the chief minister, he did not go to the meeting of the Council of Interest, while before that the province had a problem with the federation even during the government of Pervez Khattak.”
He said that the current bad economic situation of the province cannot afford any experience because on the one hand there are billions of dollars of loans that the province has to pay, while on the other hand there is no money to pay salaries to the employees with the government.
According to Mahmood Jan, there will be difficulties between the province and the federal government because the province has no capital of its own and most of the provinces are dependent on the federal government.
He said: ‘I find it difficult to run even the flagship program Sahat Card on behalf of PTI because even this program will now require about 40 billion rupees due to annual inflation.’
Security challenges and provincial government
Bahan Ali is a journalist and political analyst based in Peshawar. He said that on the one hand, there will be problems between the federal government and the governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the issues of funds, on the other hand, the issue of security in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will also be a big challenge for PTI.
He said that the extremists now use modern weapons against the police, while the provincial police will also need funds along with modern weapons.
According to Ali: “If PTI is not supported by the federal government, the fight against extremism will be a big challenge for PTI in the province.”
Similarly, it is believed that ‘Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be a center for PTI across the country and the province will be used in any confrontation against the central government and we have seen this in the past as well.’
Regarding all this situation, PTI Peshawar General Secretary and former provincial minister Kamran Khan Bangash told Independent Urdu that PTI had raised a strong voice for the rights of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the federal government during 2013 and 2018. .
He said that even then the rights of the province and especially the security and economic issues were discussed and will continue to be discussed.
Kamran Bangash added: ‘The NFC will raise a strong voice for the award and other rights of the province and there will be no compromise on the rights of the province.’
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2024-06-21 21:53:56