MALAKAND - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, provincial political and strategic committee held its meeting at Central Secretariat with PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the chair.
The meeting was attended among others by PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Javed Hashmi. It was decided in the meeting that PTI will not participate in All Parties Conference called by ANP to discuses the loadshedding issue because PTI thinks that ANP as collation partner of PPP is also responsible for energy crisis. ANP as ruling party in KPK from last four-and-a-half years never raised the issue and did not provided the royalty of electricity for the province, the party leaders observed.
They said if the ANP-led government pleaded the case of province correctly, then the people of KPK would not face prolonged loadshedding. They said now election was coming near, so the ANP was shedding crocodile tears to deceive the people but the people would not come in their stunts.
It was also decided in the meeting that PTI will start agitation against prolonged loadshedding in the province and PTI workers will stand up against this troubling time. They said PTI would stand by the people and would face any sacrifice in this regard.
It was also decided that PTI will organise 10 million people on September 23 at Miran Shah against drone attacks. This gathering will be attended by Chairman Imran Khan and people form all over the KPK. It was also decided that PTI is a powerful political party and PTI will play its due rule in politics and will raise the public issues on every forum.
Peshawar Bureau adds:  Hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers staged a protest demonstration against prolonged power outages in Peshawar and demanded immediate halt to unscheduled power outages in the country.
The protest demonstration was staged in front of Peshawar Press Club, which was led by senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and other party workers. Holding banners and placards the protestor chanted full throated slogans against the government and WAPDA and demanded immediate halt of unscheduled prolong power outage in the city.
The protestors were of the view that WAPDA have broken all the records of atrocities against the people in this scorching heat. They said that the people have been forced to take the streets as they are facing severe water shortage due to lack of electricity.
They said that PESCO frequently disconnect the power supply in time Aftar and Sehri when the people are busy in their food arrangements.
They come down hard over the PPP and ANP government for their failure to meet the energy crisis in the county. They said that despite passing of five year term the coalition government failed to produce a single unit of electricity.
Meanwhile resident of Kohati gat Yakatoot area also staged protest demonstration against load shedding and blocked road for all kind of traffic. The protesters chanted full throats slogans against PPP government and termed them responsible for the miseries of the Pakistani people.
Meanwhile, a total of 9,291 families of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have so far returned back to homes after the restoration of peace in South Waziristan Agency.
According to Fata Disaster Management Authority, owing to poor law and order situation and operation against militants in South Waziristan Agency, over 44,000 families have become IDPs, some of their have either taken shelter in camps or other have shifted to relatives homes in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
To give shelter to them, two major IDPs camps have been established in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, where hundreds of families were residing. The government provided them not only shelter but also free of cost food and other daily used stuff. However, after the restoration of peace in South Waziristan Agency, so far some 9,291 families of the IDPs have left for their homes in Sarokai and Ladha. On their return, government has also provided them foods and other daily use stuff.
Around 10,672 male, 11,133 female and 699 children were consisting of these 9,291 families, who have returned back after the restoration of peace in their respective areas. In the wake of operations against militants in Fata, most of the IDPs have been shifted to Jalozai camps, most of those IDPs have returned back home, but some families of these IDPs mostly hailing from Bajaur and Bara area of Khyber Agency are still residing in the camp.