Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday strongly opposed the idea of launching a military operation in Karachi, saying police should be utilised for restoring peace in Sindh.
Talking to reporters after attending a workshop on the Right to Information Law, Khan said the PTI government had promulgated such a in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in order to bring reforms and prosperity in the province, adding that an accountability cell was also being set up as the people had a right to know how their tax money was being utilised.
Khan said there should be no military operation in the port city as the metropolis had already been facing the consequences of the 1992 operation.
Talking about his political ‘skirmish’ with JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, the PTI head said Fazl was misusing the name of Islam in politics to achieve vested interests and added Fazl should make his source of income public.
Khan also slammed the performance of the Nationality Accountability Bureau, saying the accountability watchdog was not an independent body. He said NAB had failed to recover $60 billion from Swiss banks that President Asif Ali Zardari had deposited there.
He said $60 billion could have been brought back to Pakistan if NAB and other administrative bodies had remained vigilant. Khan also criticised the Punjab government for putting more burden on the masses, adding that there were 1,700 servants managing the Punjab Chief Minister’s House, which was an unnecessary burden on the national exchequer.
About the Right to Information Law, Khan said an ordinance to provide and ensure transparency and access to information in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had already been promulgated and “we are trying to decide on the most significant and trouble-free methods for implementation of the law”.