It is quite absurd that days after the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afaridi, claimed he was in Punjab on official business as the head of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, he has contradicted himself entirely. By announcing that, after concluding his tour of Punjab, he would head to Sindh and Balochistan as part of the PTI’s street movement to meet political workers and mobilise them for agitation, the CM has effectively conceded that he was never on official business to begin with. The pretence has now been laid bare.

He is acting not as a chief minister but as a political worker tasked with energising the PTI base and persuading it to........

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