{"id":24608,"date":"2026-07-16T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24608"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:53:28","slug":"kp-chief-minister-criticizes-closed-door-decisions-says-province-should-follow-imran-khans-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24608","title":{"rendered":"KP Chief Minister Criticizes \u2018Closed-Door Decisions,\u2019 Says Province Should Follow Imran Khan\u2019s Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SWAT:<\/strong> Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi<\/strong> has criticized what he described as decision-making behind closed doors<\/strong>, saying such policies are being tested in the province and have led to growing public dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a ceremony in Swat<\/strong>, the chief minister urged policymakers to reconsider their approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose making decisions behind closed doors are conducting experiments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,\u201d Afridi said. \u201cThe decision-makers should review their policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that people in the province are becoming disillusioned as a result of these policies and asserted that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would continue to follow the political vision of former Prime Minister Imran Khan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are losing confidence because of these policies. From now on, Imran Khan\u2019s policy will prevail in the province,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KP Information Minister Comments on Fazlur Rehman\u2019s Remarks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Separately, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Shafi Jan<\/strong> commented on the controversy surrounding remarks attributed to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman<\/strong> regarding martyrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a press conference in Peshawar<\/strong>, Shafi Jan said that martyrs belong to the entire nation and expressed the view that such remarks should not have been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMartyrs belong to all of us. Such a statement should not have come from Maulana Fazlur Rehman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he also argued that the remarks had been presented out of context<\/strong> and cautioned against labeling the JUI-F chief a traitor over a single statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou cannot declare Maulana Fazlur Rehman a traitor on the basis of one statement. We should move beyond this issue now and reflect on how the situation reached this point,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security and Governance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shafi Jan described terrorism<\/strong> as the provincial government’s most significant challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also criticized the security situation in Balochistan<\/strong>, claiming that a large part of the province has effectively become inaccessible due to security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbout 80 percent of Balochistan has become a no-go area,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information minister noted that the provincial government in Balochistan is not led by PTI but by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)<\/strong>, and questioned why, in his view, there was no clear policy to address the situation there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarks on Imran Khan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Referring to PTI founder Imran Khan<\/strong>, Shafi Jan said that August 5<\/strong> will mark three years since his arrest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He argued that prisoners are entitled to certain legal rights and alleged that those rights are not being provided to the PTI founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statements made by Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and Information Minister Shafi Jan reflect the views of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. Other political parties and the federal government may hold different positions on the issues raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWAT: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has criticized what he described as decision-making behind closed doors, saying such policies are being tested in the province and have led to growing public dissatisfaction. Speaking at a ceremony in Swat, the chief minister urged policymakers to reconsider their approach. \u201cThose making decisions behind closed doors are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1784213653,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24610,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions\/24610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}