From 2010 to November 2025, the federal government has transferred Rs6,572 billion to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government under the NFC Award. Of these 15 years, 13 have been years of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rule. Can PTI be asked where this money went?

Thirteen years is not a trivial period that can be concealed through the usual theatrics of post-truth politics. It is a full record of performance, and it amounts to an indictment. PTI will have to answer for it.

Since they are considered highly educated and known for their reading habits, let us begin with education. Let us set aside the figures provided by the federal government, because PTI might dismiss them as coming from political rivals. Let us turn instead to the United Nations. UNICEF says that in KP, 4.5 million children between the ages of 10 and 15 are out of school.

Can Mr Sohail Afridi, one of Imran Khan’s most devoted followers, be asked what plan he has for these children? Are they simply to grow up and become fodder for another blind long march, or is there any plan under consideration for securing their future?

Let us leave the United Nations aside as well. Heaven knows, this caravan of revolution might even declare that global body a patwari office. Let us look at last year’s report of KP’s own Education Department. According to the report, 591 government schools across the province, including Peshawar and the merged tribal districts, are non-functional. Seventy-four per cent of them are girls’ schools. Forty schools have no students at all, while 13 have neither students nor teachers. Some schools have been swallowed up by land mafias, while others have been occupied by influential individuals.

Can someone ask the Chief Minister, who is so fond of appearing on the roads of other provinces behind dark glasses, whether there has been any improvement in this situation over the past year and what exactly his education policy is?

The MDCAT is among the most important components of our examination system. In KP, even this was turned into a spectacle. In 2023, organised cheating took place through electronic devices. More than 200 candidates were caught cheating. How many escaped detection is anyone’s guess.

Let us leave aside the deadly rumours and controversies surrounding the MDCAT in KP. By 2024, the matter had reached the National Assembly’s Standing Committee. Yet there was hardly any sense of shame or accountability.

Health cards were celebrated with such grand rhetoric that one would have thought KP had won the World Cup in the field of medicine. But read the Auditor General’s report and the picture becomes rather different. More astonishingly, there were........

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