Mahmood terms PDM’s Swat rally a flop show

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has termed the public meeting of Pakistan Democratic Movement in Swat a flop show and said that the people of Swat turned a deaf ear to the PDM’s call for the gathering which clearly reflected their confidence in the policies of the incumbent government.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said that lack of public interest in the ‘jalsa’ (public meeting) was a clear message to the PDM that people of Swat as well as the entire province had rejected its unjust move against the government.

He said that the worst political opponents of the past who always blamed each other for plundering national resources had now got united just to save their corruption.

Mahmood Khan stated that people of the province had rejected the PDM this time too as it was rejected during its first phase of the anti-government move. He said that the PDM had met its fate much earlier when two of its major parties parted ways with it.

He claimed that it was an alliance of failed, rejected and corrupt political people who were trying to malign the government to avoid accountability, but it should be clear to all of them that across-the-board accountability would continue as it was on top of the agenda of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

The chief minister said that everyone would be taken to task for plundering the resources of the country. He said that people of the country had rejected all these political entities as they ruled this country turn by turn for about seven decades, but did nothing for the well-being of the masses.

He condemned the organisers of Swat public meeting for using the students of madressahs for their political show and termed it a shameful act on their part.