Overview
- In his first high-level meeting, Chief Minister Sohail Afridi directed the KP chief secretary to identify officials who he says undermined the 2024 mandate, pledging rewards for those who upheld it and action against those who did not.
- Afridi ordered the return of bulletproof vehicles supplied by the interior ministry, calling them old and defective, days after Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi handed their keys to KP IGP Zulfiqar Hameed in Islamabad.
- He blamed a resurgence of terrorism in the province on what he described as the federal government’s flawed policy and said KP was being denied war-on-terror funds and other constitutional rights.
- Afridi promised to prioritize police resourcing and depoliticization, vowing no detentions of political individuals under the Maintenance of Public Order and no arrests on politically driven FIRs.
- Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry rejected the vehicle quality claims and said the cars meet international standards, while alleging KP failed to properly use large federal allocations for policing and counterterrorism.