BRT project: Khalil Qaumi Jirga warns to hold protest against alleged corruption

Members of "Khalil Qaumi Jirga" have warned they will stage a protest sit-in (Dharna) in front of NAB office Peshawar against alleged corruption in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. They also threatened to block the main Jamrud Road in the province by delaying project and said that the responsibility for all this would rest on government.
A jirga meeting, chaired by JUI-F's ex-minister Maulana Amanullah Haqqani, Pir Fida Advocate Member Provincial Assembly PTI, PML-N Arbab Khizer Hayat, JI's ex-minister Kashif Azam, ANP Arbab Tahir, ex-MPA Alamgir Khalil, Ishfaq Khalil, PPP's Arbab Zarak Khan, Zubair Khalil and other, termed the standard of work of the BRT as substandard and slow-paced.
The meeting said that the provincial government had lost the people's trust and confidence and even in time completion of BRT cannot recover its image in the eyes of the public. The meeting vowed that the Khalil tribe would take to the streets and hold protest against the government, if the government fails to open BRT on time.
Giving details about the Jirga meeting, Arbab Khizer Hayat said that total cost of BRT construction has soared up to more than 90 billion rupees and this money would come from the poor man's pocket. It is just like looting the hard earned money of the poor people of the province, he added.
He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan would soon admit that there existed no need for the BRT project and would term it a mistake by the PTI government in Pakhtunkhwa. He said that the under-construction BRT project has turned the lives of people of Peshawar miserable and most of them have become patients due to dust and noise everywhere in the city.
He also alleged that the ex-chief minister Parvez Khattak embezzled millions of rupees in the BRT project. He said Khattak is also responsible for all demolitions in the city. Arbab Khizer said that instead of becoming federal defence minister Khattak should have landed in jail for his crimes. He said that it was regrettable that in Pakistan law is used only to suppress the opposition parties.