PESHAWAR: It seems two ministers are overseeing the key health ministry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to a delay in the notification of the recent cabinet reshuffle showing differences in the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

It came to light in the provincial assembly on Monday when minister-designate for industries Shaukat Ali Yousafzai began responding to the questions on health department.

The government before reshuffling and inducting new ministers, advisers and special assistants on April 1 had changed portfolio of few ministers, including health minister Shaukat Yousafzai.

During the question hour, opposition MPA Nighat Orakzai asked the treasury to tell who was the incharge of health ministry at the moment.

Shaukat Yousafzai replied that he was the minister for health.

`I am speaking to the house as health minister,` he said.

Shahram Tarakai, who was made the agriculture minister after the government`s formation, told journalists in the lobby that he had been given the health portfolio in the reshuffle and that information minister Shah Farman had publicly announced it.He said Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had asked him to oversee the health department.

`The situation will become clear in the next two days as the government issues notification about portfolios,` said Shahram Tarakai, whose party is part of the ruling coalition in the province.

He heads Awami Jamhoori Ittehad Pakistan, which has five seats in the provincial assembly.

According to sources, PTI chairman Imran Khan had withheld notification of the allotment of new portfolios after a pressure group in the party accused the chief minister of allotting ministries to incom-petent persons.

The group has also levelled corruption allegations against several ministers, advisers and special assistants.

Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, who is in trouble after 14 disgruntled MPAs of PTI made the pressure group, blamed the opposition for status quo and corrupt system on one hand and sought its (opposition) assistance to eliminate injustice from society on the other.

Speaking on a point of order, the chief minister asked the opposition not to force him into exposing the `wrongdoings of everyone ` He said the people were sick of corrupt system and that was why they voted for PTI in the last general elections.

Mr Khattak said PTI was voted to power to change the outdated system of governance and not to put up buildings.

He said he had joined PTI firmly believing that its chief Imran Khan could change the system.

The chief minister said he won`t tolerate corruption in government departments and that the opposition and media should come upwith tangible evidence if they thought he and his ministers were corrupt.

`I never took ill-gotten money home in my entire political career, he said asking the opposition to help him correct the system `for God`s sake.

He even said if the opposition didn`t offer the sought-after cooperation, then Almighty Allah would help him.

Earlier during the question hour, Speaker Asad Qaisar chided minister-designate for industries Shaukat Yousafzai for not providing accurate and incomplete information to the members on health services in the province.

`This is not a serious attitude.

What the health department thinks of this assembly by furnishing incomplete information about health facilities,` the chair said when minister tried to evade the matter.

When MPA Anisazeb Tahirkhell asked about doctors, who are abroad on leave for studies, Shaukat Yousafzai initially confirmed that 200 doctors serving in teaching hospitals of the provincewere on long leave.

He admitted that the health delivery system in the government run-hospitals had been suffering due to the absence of such doctors.

The minister, however, immediately retracted his statement saying the health department had nothing to do with the doctors going abroad on leave for studies as the government had granted autonomy to teaching hospitals.

The chair referred the questions on the health department to the relevant committee of the house for consideration.

Meanwhile, the treasury and opposition benches unanimously passed a resolution condemning attack on TV anchor Hamid Mir and pushing the government for the arrest of attackers.

The journalists staged a token walkout from the press gallery against the attack.

The lawmakers also condemned attack on the resident of slain ANP leader Mian Mushtaq in Peshawar and targeted killing of a leader in Buner district, demanding that the government ensure safety of political workers.