KOHAT: ANP provincial president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has accused the ruling PTI of emptying the exchequer owing to rampant corruption.

Addressing a party convention in Hangu on Monday, he said the government affairs in KP were being controlled from Banigala, which had multiplied the problems of Pakhtuns.

The ANP leader claimed that during his stint as chief minister his government had established 10 universities, dozens of colleges and hundreds of new schools, but the present PTI government could not even construct a single schoolinitsfouryears tenure.

He regretted that mega projects were being started in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan whereas the PTI government was making investments in exporting donkeys to China.

Mr Hoti demanded immediate halt to the harassment of Pakhtuns in Punjab as they had rendered uncountable sacrifices in the war against terror.

The former chief minister said nobody could block the way of red revolution in the province, adding the ANP would form the next government in KP. He asked the workers to startelectioneering.

ANP parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak, provincial vice president Hussain Ali Shah and others also addressed the meeting.

STRIKE CONTINUES: The strike by sweepers and laundrymen of KDA teaching hospital for health allowance entered the seventh consecutive day on Monday.

They are on protest despite clear orders from the health department to terminate their services in case they did not end the strike,sources said.

Dr Raham, medical superintendent of the hospital, told Dawn on Monday that he had so far not received a copy of the orders of the chief minister banning strikes by class-IV employees and terminating their services in case of disobedience. He said he would certainly take action as soon as he received the order.

He said he had tried to engage the protesting staff to join duty and also told them about the strict government decision of their termination but they did not budge, and even threatened to stage a dharna and then proceed to Peshawar for a sit-in.