MIANWALI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said that his party would take steps to address poverty and unemployment after coming into power.
Addressing a rally in Mianwali, Khan promised that the PTI would bring 100 million people out of poverty.
“Crime and terrorism rates have gone down by 70 % in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) ever since PTI came to power in the province. God willing, I will straighten the Punjab Police in the same manner that I changed the police system in KP,” he said.
He also strongly criticised Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif. “For how long will you continue fooling the nation Shehbaz Sharif? Shehbaz and his brother have only fooled this nation. Nawaz laundered Rs 300 billion, but his family continues to be arrogant, and fails to admit its crimes. One wants to gain sympathy by questioning his disqualification while the other brother has not done anything to develop Punjab,” he said.
The PTI leader said that all of the development in the province was only on paper and in the advertisements printed to promote the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). The PTI leader said that the only change that the Shehbaz had brought to the police was using the taxpayers’ money to change the law enforcement force’s uniform.
“Nothing will stop the nation from progressing if the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) are reformed,” he said.
Published in Daily Times, October 29th 2017.
