Govt asked to implement original plan of CPEC

PESHAWAR: Students of various educational institutions on Saturday held a protest demonstration and warned to march on Islamabad if the federal government failed to implement original plan of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The participants chanted slogans against reported change in the CPEC project.

Talking to media, the students’ leader Tariq Afghan said the federal government was bent upon depriving Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of its due rights.

The CPEC, he said, was national level project and it should not be limited to any particular area and people. “We are not against Punjab and its people but we would not surrender our own rights,” Tariq Afghan said and urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to avoid creating mistrust among the federating units. He recalled the sacrifices rendered by people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the war on terror and said it was duty of the federal government to compensate the affected families. He warned that people of KP and FATAwould have no option but to march to Islamabad if their demands were not met.

Meanwhile, members of Olasi Tehreek also held a protest and demanded the government to avoid confrontational policies and give due share to KP in the CPEC or else.