SWABI: The Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-iIslam-Fazl leaders said in their separate meetings here the other day that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its coalition partners had pushed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into severe financial crisis due to their wrong policies.

District nazim Ameer Rehman, who is also ANP district president, said that reports about the financial crisis had perturbed the people and they frequently asked questions to know the reasons of abrupt economic decline.

`The simple answer to their questions is that the ruling coalition has failed to deliver. All the claims made by the PTI and its coalition partners about result-oriented change proved an empty slogan,` he said.

He told his party workers to prepare for the worst economic crisis and challenges ahead in the province.

Fazal Ali, former education minister and leader of JUI-F, said that the claim of PTI`s popularity and good governance had been exposed with the emerging financial difficulties being faced by its government. `All this has been caused by mismanagement,` he said.

He said that the province was passing through financial crisis while its ruling party had been planning marches on Islamabad in an attempt to divert the people`s attention from their own failure.

Meanwhile, a man died af ter he fell on a threshing machine in Maneri Bala area here the other day. Police said that Zar Wali Khan, a tractor driver, was threshing maize grain when he suddenly fell on the thresher and died. Correspondent