As the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government comes under fire over its alleged failure to improve the lives of people in the province, Governor Faisal Kareem Kundi on Saturday turned the question towards Islamabad, asking what the PML-N-led federal government had done for the province. "There is a lot of criticism of the PTI government in K-P for doing little to nothing for the people of the province, but what has the PML-N-led federal government done for K-P?" Governor Kundi asked during a conversation with The Express Tribune. Kundi questioned how many times Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had visited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to preliminary research, the prime minister has visited the province twice. Kundi said the frequency of the premier's visits reflected the federal government's priorities towards the people of K-P. "Why are all the projects and the focus directed towards Punjab?" he asked, adding that if the PTI government in K-P was failing its people, the federal government could have stepped in to fill the gaps. The governor said he supported the K-P government's "genuine demands" from the federal government, particularly those relating to the province's fiscal and water shares. "Our province is not getting its due fiscal share," he said. "Not only that, K-P is not even getting its due water share." Kundi also raised the issue of the Chashma Right Bank Canal, saying K-P had been deprived of its due share while other provinces had received canals and water allocations. "Where is our Chashma Right Bank Canal? Every province has received its canals and is getting its due share of water, but not K-P," he said. According to Kundi, the canal could irrigate a large area in Dera Ismail Khan and help address the province's agricultural needs, including its wheat shortfall. Asked about Chief Minister K-P Sohail Afridi's performance, Kundi said there was "nothing to write home about" on the performance front. However, he described Afridi as a decent person who "minds his own business", unlike his predecessor. On the political situation in K-P, Kundi said PTI was fragmented and divided into five or six groups. This fragmentation, he added, had considerably weakened the party's political strength in the province. He predicted that PTI's planned September 27 rally would be "another flop show". Asked about reports that the PPP was considering moving to the opposition benches in the federal government, following remarks by PPP leader Hasan Murtaza, Kundi appeared to reject the possibility. "Why would PPP sit on the opposition benches? Will we sit behind PTI?" he asked. When asked whether the PPP could pursue an independent political course rather than joining an opposition bloc, given its political differences with PTI, Kundi reiterated his objection to sitting alongside PTI. "Why would we sit with PTI or share benches with them?" he said. His position, however, appears to differ from remarks made by some other PPP leaders regarding the party's possible political strategy in the federal government. On the question of creating new provinces, Kundi said the PPP was opposed to the proposal in principle, although the party supported the creation of a Saraiki province.