Ah yes, the brave government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, holding the “frontline” in the war on terror like a soldier armed with press releases and blame games. According to the province’s official megaphone, aka the Information Adviser to the Chief Minister, KP is doing everything possible to eliminate terrorism. Everything, that is, except accepting responsibility, improving governance, or producing results.
Instead of asking for help, they’re too busy accusing the federal government of not helping enough. Irony? No, just routine.
What’s even more poetic is that the provincial spokesperson, while complaining about “accusations,” casually throws a full bouquet of his own at Islamabad, all while unknowingly backing the military’s recent jab at his political party’s flair for fictional storytelling. Talk about self-burns.
Yes, the people and police of KP are making daily sacrifices, real, painful ones. But what are the rulers sacrificing? Anything beyond microphones and tweets?
Despite governing for over a decade, the party in charge seems to think its only job is to narrate heroics while the ground reality slips further into chaos. KP has voted them in not once, not twice, but three times. And what do they have to show for it? Hollow speeches, incomplete promises, and a province now suffocated by the very terrorism they claimed they’d defeat.
And here’s the part no one’s supposed to talk about: This is the same political party whose so-called leader and founding members openly bragged about bringing thousands of militants; five, six, even seven thousand of them, back into Pakistan, “resettling” them like long-lost relatives returning home. As if replanting seeds of chaos in an already fragile province was some kind of achievement.
It’s not even a secret anymore that many within the ruling elite have allegedly paid protection money to terrorists. Not conspiracy, cold, hard fact. Yet, they strut on stage, thump their chests, and warn terrorists that they won’t win.
Well, they’re right about one thing, someone is winning. Just not the people of KP.
And as for the final word? Let’s give that to the one man whose blunt honesty cut through all the noise: the DG ISPR, who said it plainly;
“Betrayal of governance gave Khawarij room to bleed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”
He wasn’t exaggerating. And sadly, no one can deny it anymore, least of all, the provincial rulers proving him right with every passing day.
