Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister-designate Pervez Khan Khattak has said that the PTI government will cater all needs of police department soon after coming to power and lack of resources will not be made hurdle in this regard. However, he said his government would rightly expect that police would give us 100 percent results in respect of safeguarding lives, properties and honour of the citizens.
He was addressing a briefing by IGP Inam Ghani about law and order and crimes control in the province at Peshawar on Monday. The Speaker-designate Asad Qaisar, Shaukat Ali Yousufzai, MPA-elect and PTI Provincial General Secretary and other political and government elite were also present on the occasion.
Pervez Khattak said that maintaining law and order as well as uprooting the crimes and social evils were prime obligations of any government wherein role of police envisaged paramount importance that must be realised by all high and lower officials of police. He said the people of KP suffered a lot specially due to law and order problems and not only rendered matchless sacrifices of lives and properties but industries, economy, trade and commerce activities also badly affected. It resulted into enhancement of the unemployment and poverty ratio as compared to other parts of the country; he maintained adding that only durable peace and tranquillity could compensate all their miseries.
He made clear that only a single incident of law and order marred the overall performance of the government and police in particular raising a question mark on its alertness and also it increases public agony. Hence he said all the institutions including police had to work with harmony and cohesion for peace and public safeguard.