PESHAWAR: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has announced to do away with the practice of road blockades during the movement of key personalities throughout the province.
“The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is pleased to abandon undue and extra protocol, unnecessary security routing, traffic restrictions and blocking of public roads during visits of VVIPs and VIPs throughout the province with immediate effect and in the best public interest, and to avoid any inconvenience to the general public,” said an official statement issued over the weekend.
The mandatory security to VVIPs and VIPs would be provided in accordance with law and security protocols as usual, it added.
Khan had last week announced to put an end to the practice during his address to a public rally held in Lodhran to celebrate the party candidate Jahangir Tareen’s by-election victory.
Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has also announced that roads will not be blocked during the movement of the important persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“We will provide foolproof security to the prime minister and others VIPs but roads will not be blocked for anyone,” he told a ceremony at the Madrassa Obaidia Anwaria in Malang Baba Khwar and at public meetings in his native district here over the weekend.
“Protocol is a curse which causes inconvenience to commuters and motorists,” Khattak said, adding that he had no desire for protocol and didn’t ask for it since he has been elected as chief executive of the province.
He said PTI is doing politics for the poor and it has put an end to the VIP culture in the province.
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