PTI ‘avoids’ resolution against terror attacks

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came under criticism from opposition MPA Nighat Orakzai for being silent over terror acts rocking the province and Gilgit-Baltistan, where 10 foreign mountaineers were killed on Sunday. During the sessions on Sunday and Monday, the House did not pass any joint resolution condemning the suicide attack on an imambargah and the killing of foreign mountaineers in Gilgit-Baltistan. “This government stays silent to escape the terrorists’ wrath,” Orakzai told Daily Times after recording her displeasure on the floor of the House over the KP coalition government’s silence over the attacks in the province and elsewhere in the country. She said the previous assembly developed consensus when any incident of terrorism took place in any part of the country. “But this coalition government is so afraid of terrorists that it avoids even naming them,” the KP MPA said. “The opposition’s role is to point out an issue and the government’s job is to make a move. We played our part, but the government preferred staying silent because it does not want to annoy the terrorists,” Nighat claimed.