PESHAWAR, Nov 17: Pakistan Tehreeki-Insaf activists have appreciated termination of two ministers of Qaumi Watan Party on corruption charges, but said that chairman Imran Khan should also focus on the monitoring of his own ministers if he wants to reassure the people of his intention of making the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa free of corruption.

`We appreciate the decision, but the people of this province will be convinced only when Imran Khan will take a similar action against his own ministers and posi-tion-holders in the government,` said Zafarullah Khattak, a former Peshawar city president of the PTI, while talking to this reporter. The PTI chief is honest to the core, he said and claimed that many of his ministers in the provincial cabinet were like Bakht Baidar and Ibrar Hussain of the QWP as far as corruption was concerned.

The QWP was an allied party of the PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and had no commitment towards the latter`s agenda, he said. Despite being partner in the provincial government, the QWP had not voted for the PTI candidate in the presidential election and instead supported thePML-Nawaz candidate and therefore couldn`t have been expected to forward the PTI`s agenda, he said.

He said that those elected on the PTI ticket and now part of the provincial government should be closely monitored to ensure that corruption did not take place.

Mr Khattak said that Mr Khan, the PTI chief, had promised that his party`s ministers and members of the provincial assembly wouldn`t pursue their own businesses, but many were active in securing contracts and receiving other benefits. He said that while some people hailed the action against two ministers, others had questioned why onlymembers of the provincial cabinet of an allied party were subjected to humiliation.

`Had Imran taken action against the PTI ministers, it would have sent a clear message to all the people. Now, it tends to suggest that PTI got rid of the ministers because it didn`t need QWP support in the assembly,` Mr Khattak said.

A local PTI leader who wished anonymity said that he had 17 years of association with the PTI and the integrity of its chairman was above board, but described the action against the ministers as discriminatory.

He said that many of the existing KP ministers weren`t genuine PTI activists, butmanaged to win intra-party election by virtue of which they were able to get party tickets.

Mohammad Rafiq, a staunch PTI activist in Mardan, said that Mr Khan should take into confidence his party workers who had been instrumental in conveying the party message to public. He lamented that currently there was no role left for the workers.

He said that the PTI chief should put in place a system to monitor the activities of the ministers through the party workers.

He said that people were now looking towards Mr Khan to take action against own ministers.