KARAK: Differences have cropped up among the local Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmakers over the distribution of funds from the oil and gas royalty for development schemes after the district development advisory committee stopped the share of woman MPA Deena Naz.

Sources said that the district development advisory committee chairman Gul Sahib Khan Khattak deliberately ignored to invite the woman lawmaker to the committee meetings to discuss and approve uplift schemes.

When contacted, Ms Naz informed Dawn that she would raise the issue on the floor of the provincial assembly and would inform the PTI leadership about the injustices being meted out to her by the DDAC chairman.

She complained that despite directives of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, the DDAC chairman denied giving her due share in the devel-opment funds. She demanded probe into the distribution of Rs700 million royalty funds.

She said that she would also move court in this regard.

Ms Naz said that PTI chairman Imran Khan had sent a team of experts to conduct surveys of dams and explore other ways to resolve the drinking water problem of the district. But, she said that instead of spending the huge royalty funds in the light of findings of the surveys the money was being spent on the will of MPA Gul Sahib Khan and chief minister`s advisor MPA Malik Qasim Khan.

The PTFs woman lawmaker alleged that huge funds were being wasted by the two MPAs to secure their own vested interests.

The sources said that Ms Naz had prepared the feasibility of the uplift schemes to be executed with her share of funds and had also advertised them, but the DDAC chairman stopped the funds, saying that she had not taken the approval of the schemes from the committee.