PESHAWAR: Former PTI provincial president and chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkwa Pervez Khattak has said he wanted to join hands with ulema to serve Islam.
Khattak was speaking at a gathering in which PML-Q leader Muhammad Shoaib along with his colleagues and supporters announced to join Khattak’s PTI Parliamentarians.
After the May 9th violence and arson attacks, Khattak parted ways with former prime minister Imran Khan’s PTI and announced his own faction of the PTI Parliamentarians and condemned the incidents.
Khattak today said that he would always welcome religious leaders and ulema in his party. He said during his tenure as the chief minister, he had allocated stipends for ulema and also launched solarization programs under which about 40 percent mosques had been solarized across the province.
He said he would be welcoming ulema to his party as he wants to serve the religion with the help of the ulema and religious leaders.
Khattak also said that he had made his own political party and was not working to break any other party. He said he was not power hungry but wants to serve the masses.
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