PESHAWAR:
year 2022 has been a chaotic and politically unstable year for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially after PTI rule in the province saw its fall in center after its chairman Imran Khan was ousted in a vote of no-confidence.
The tremors were felt strongly in province – fortress of head of the FTI – and hobbled the provincial governments ability function with Rainbow coalition including arch-rivals calling shots in center.
After its completion in federal governmentPTI struggled to get financial resources from PDM government. In addition, this also lost his governor in provinces.
KP government also accused the center of push the province into bankruptcy by withholding share in federal transfers and net hydel profits as well as appropriations for united tribal districts.
Throughout the year several unprecedented events caught the province off guard. Here is a brief overview of final events:
floods
Meanwhile, 12 years later, the province was shaken by a similar deadly flood the situation he faced in 2010.
According to government estimates, 106 children122 men and 36 women were among the dead and another 237 were injured with about 0.6 million affected.
Unusually heavy downpours have turned small mountain streams and ravines into swollen rivers that washed away everything on them way including people, herds of cattle, crops, trees and houses.
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governmentpreliminary study report also said that over 73,000 homes affected – of of which 30,233 were fully destroyed and 42,965 people were partially affected by the disaster.
Another 754 schools were also they say they got hurt of at least 72 of them were completely washed away by the flood, and 682 were partially damaged.
health centers were also Badly hit, with a total of An estimated 82 people were affected. Okay over 60,000 acres of crops and 477 irrigation systems. also destroyed by floods. Almost 1455 kilometers of the roads were also was destroyed, with 867 roads and at least 73 bridges were damaged.
Besides, over 9000 animals were also presumably killed, which, according to the chief minister Shaukat Yousufzai could potentially leave total rated financial cost for a staggering 100 billion rupees. However, the initial damage caused through flood estimated at 68 billion rubles.
Despite all this, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government announced help packages for Balochistan flood victims. About directives of Chief ministermembers of provincial cabinet sent 32 trucks to government of Balochistan.
Additional polls
As for electoral politicslocal body system became bright again after successful completion of in series of local body elections in provinces.
in second phaselocal body elections were held in 18 districts of provinces.
In October, PTI head Imran Khan set a new record winning four seats in the National Assembly.
The vote was taken on seven National Assembly seats: NA-22 Mardan III, NA-24 Charsadda II, NA-31 Peshawar V, NA-108 Faisalabad VIII, NA-118 Nankana Sahib II, NA-157 Multan IV, NA-237 Malir II, NA -239 Korangi Karachi I.
Distinctive feature of additional polls in October 2022 showed that Imran was in contention for all but the NA seats one i.e. NA-157, where party exposed Meher Bano Qureshi, daughter of party Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi against PDM candidate Ali Musa Gilani.
Prior to Imran Khan, PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was running for five seats at the same time. former Prime Minister emerges victorious on four places and lost one.
In September, when the election commission of Pakistan fined everyone Rs 50,000 on former prime minister head Imran Khan, CP CM Mahmoud Khan and several members of the cabinet, including ministers and advisers to the leader minister, for code violation of behavior released for upcoming by-election by participating in 6 September public rally in provincial capital, despite warning.
The fine was imposed by the district inspector EHZ for NA-31 Peshawar-V Shahabuddin.
In its order, the DMO said that reading of evidence containing video, photos and news clippings together with report of monitoring team established that various public office-owners, including chief minister, cabinet members, advisors and special assistants, in violation of Section 17-B of the code of conduct, participate in rally.
Control
On the other hand, the authorities took notable measures to improve the general situation with the rule of law in provinces. Decree party – which also governs united tribal territories shaken by resurgent militancy – decided to download out militancy and incident prevention of unrest in the province.
Furthermore, decision it was decided to form a joint forum of civil and military institutions and set up an anti-extortion cell.
AND special Established Anti-Extortion Service for identification of terrorist groups in extortion calls throughout the province. Desktop works on threatening calls from Afghanistan with development of regional and police stations heat cards. Will also detect and block gray traffic in coordination with FIA and PTA.
Meanwhile, after the shocking Murri incident that led to mass death of tourists, boss minister also announced measures for in protection of tourists.
On January 7, 2022, there was a blizzard. in Murry, falls more than 4 feet of snow, killing 23 domestic tourists who visited to see snowfall. Many died when the temperature dropped to about minus 8 degrees Celsius.
On time yearKP government also announced make employees of the Workers’ Welfare Board permanent. debts of billions of rupees per international institutions were still discussed in collection of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Food department and bank of Khyber agreed to open accounts of 1 million families with the Insaf Food Card.
Meeting in August of The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP), chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, approved the development projects. of 110,241 million rupees.
The meeting approved 62 projects related to rural development, irrigation, public health engineering, C&W, health, elementary and secondary and higher education.
county development plans for several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) also part of approved projects for which rehabilitation of medical and educational facilities and clean drinking water will be provided.
Approved projects include construction and improvement of irrigation and crossing facilities and flood infrastructure in Chuprial, Baydara, Shokhdara, Durushkhela, Baz Khela, Sakhra villages and adjacent areas of Svat region.
In addition, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly approved the permanent appointment of 38,000 teachers. provincial government also announced in start of work on new tourist areas. Main minister approved projects worth 12 billion rupees.
mosque explosion
A suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque rocked Kochu Risaldar in Peshawar. in March, with officials say at least 56 people died and 194 were injured.
officials, who called the incident a suicide attack, initially stated that two people were involved in the attack. However, CCTV footage released later shows that the assailant was dressed alone. in a black shalwar kameez comes to the mosque in in cityBazaar Qissa Khvani on kicking and brandishing a gun.
He opened fire on police personnel deployed outside in main input for security before running inside. intruder also opened fire on the male who tried to stop him and managed to enter the mosque where the believers had gathered for Friday prayer followed by an explosion took place.
Twin Eads
In a bizarre development dispute about seeing the moon at Shawwal in province ended up in in celebration of two ida on two different days again.
Muslims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa filled mosques and prayer grounds across the province to offer prayers. on Monday, the day before the rest of a country.
Prayers were held in over 100 seats in Peshawar alone so far Chief Minister Mahmoud Khan offered a prayer at the Governor’s House.
IMF threat
KP government threatened the center and the IMF with refusal to cooperate. Just three days before resurrection of multi-billion dollar dollar lending from the International Monetary Fund, KP government tried to break the program in an attempt, which the then Finance Minister Miftah Ismail called “a conspiracy against Pakistan”.
In a letter to Ismail, KP Finance Minister Taimoor Salim Jagra linked cash surplus in this fiscal year – what is part of pakistan deal with IMF – with gap of declared commitments of 100 billion rupees.
By agreement with the IMF KP government was required to get 117 billion rupees cash the surplus he has already agreed to provide through a memorandum of understanding. Ismail is a co-author of letter of Intention (LoI) sent to the IMF a few days ago for revival of program.
