PESHAWAR: Interim Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Justice (r)Dost Muhammad Khan took notice of Peshawar Deputy Commissioner (DC) ImranHamid Sheikh’s “irresponsible statement” that his administration hadprepared 1,000 coffins in case of an emergency situation on July 25.
A notification issued by the CM House Secretariat said that governmentofficials had been barred from giving policy statements.
The notification reads, “The DC’s video statement is a distasteful joke tospread fear and panic in voters.”
The DC had given the statement in a video message that has since gone viralon social media.