According to a media report on Friday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Defense Minister Pervez Khattak said they would not vote for him and complained about the neglect of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province by the government.
The incident took place on Thursday during a meeting of the ruling coalition’s parliamentary party at the Parliament House, which was chaired by Prime Minister Khan, Dawn newspaper reported.
The defense minister, while attending a meeting to approve a controversial Supplementary Finance Bill-2022, commonly referred to as the mini budget, was reportedly told that if people were not given new gas connections, he would be the prime minister. Minister will not vote for Khan. less developed provinces
Khattak was elected to the National Assembly from Nowshera-I in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
Sources said that the Prime Minister got angry on Khattak’s complaint and asked him to stop blackmailing him.
On this the Defense Minister left the meeting hall but later the Prime Minister called him back.
After the meeting, the Prime Minister sat in his chamber for almost the entire day and met several MLAs from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and other parties of the ruling coalition.
According to sources, Khattak was of the view that the province is being neglected in the matter of provision of electricity and gas, while these facilities are being enjoyed by the people of other provinces.
The newspaper quoted sources as saying that the defense minister told the prime minister that if the situation continues, the people of the province will not vote for PTI. Khattak, however, told the media after the meeting that he neither spoke harshly to the prime minister nor threatened to not vote for Khan and raised the issue of gas shortage in the province and the ban on new gas connections.
“Imran Khan is my leader and prime minister and I did not tell him that I will not vote for KP people if they are not given gas connections,” he said.
Khattak said that he had come out of the meeting hall to smoke.
“I am a smoker and I went outside the meeting hall to smoke,” he said.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Shahbaz Gill later confirmed that Khattak had raised the issue of non-provision of gas for the people of KP.
He said the Defense Minister told Energy Minister Hammad Azhar that gas supply schemes in KP were being blocked and no new gas connections were being given to the people of the province.
The report said that after the parliamentary party meeting, the prime minister called the defense minister to his chamber, where he again expressed displeasure over Khattak’s “attitude”.
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