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Sherpao promises jobs for youth if voted to power

He said the purchasing power of the people had squeezed and they were unable to feed their children

By Our Correspondent
January 27, 2024
Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao speaks during a gathering in Charsadda on January 26, 2024. — Facebook/Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao speaks during a gathering in Charsadda on January 26, 2024. — Facebook/Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao 

CHARSADDA: Spearheading the election campaign of his party, Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Friday promised that if voted to power, the QWP would create job opportunities for the youth in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a gathering at Dhakki union council in Charsadda, he said unemployment was rampant in KP, which lacked industries to provide job opportunities to the youth. He said the people in KP were facing poverty and unemployment. He advised the people particularly the youth lot not to fall for catchy slogans as the ones, who ruled the province for over nine years, could not honour the pledges.

He said the purchasing power of the people had squeezed and they were unable to feed their children. Talking about his party’s election manifesto, Aftab Sherpao said the QWP had put together a compressive plan to boost literacy rate in KP besides providing health facilities to the people from the downtrodden segments of the society.

Taking a swipe at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership, he said that its leader stabbed his benefactors in the back and cooked up the regime change narrative after his ouster from power in a face-saving effort. He said Imran Khan pushed the country to bankruptcy as he was incompetent to deliver on his so-called reform agenda. He said KP generated cheap and surplus hydel electricity, but it was unfortunate the local people were facing power cuts and receiving inflated bills.

The QWP would not let the people down and would come up to their expectations by honouring the pledges, he added.

He said that his party would spare no effort to work for the development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the wellbeing of its residents. The QWP believed in serving the people with any consideration for political affiliations, he said and advised the voters to check the track record of the candidates before voting for them.