- PTI chief says no ‘Naya Pakistan’ without a ‘Naya Karachi’
- Wants people to vote to punish ruling party
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Sunday called on voters and supporters in Karachi to end what he termed the monopoly of a single political party in the city.
“We have to create history in Karachi. There is monopoly in Karachi of a political party which takes turns in power over and over again. And you can see the condition of the people today,” said the PTI leader speaking at a gatherings of supporters in different areas of the mega city including Banaras colony and Lyari.
“If these people remain in power, the condition of Karachi will also stay the same,” he said.
Imran urged citizens of Karachi to come out and vote for the PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) in the local government elections in the city to punish the ruling elite which has done nothing for their betterment.
The PTI and JI have reached an understanding to ‘root out their opponent’ the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the local bodies’ elections in Karachi, scheduled to be held on December 5.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman said that politics of hatred and ethnicity had halted the fast progressing city of Karachi over the past 30 years.
“Karachi was the most developed city in Pakistan before ethnic politics was launched in the provincial capital of Sindh,” Khan told his supporters at Kakri Ground in Lyari.
“It all happened before my eyes when I saw Karachi going down and Dubai’s economy growing up as investors left the city due to violence and bloodshed,” he said. “In two years Rs 430 billion have been transferred to Dubai,” he said.
“In Lyari people have been divided on the basis of castes and ethnicity and someone else took advantage of it,” he noted.
Khan pledged that he would unite the divided people of Karachi. “There can be no Naya Pakistan without a Naya Karachi.”
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would bridge the existing divide between people of different ethnicity. He urged people not to vote for a party, whose leader was sitting abroad. “I will live and die in Pakistan,” Khan said.
The PTI chief said that god willing, he would transform the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a year. “If I get another year, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be a different province and I won’t even need to campaign for the next elections,” he said.
He said that PTI would make Pakistan a great nation.
“Inshallah this country will, once again, be on the track to the progress when people will come to find jobs in Pakistan,” he said.
“Vote for either Bat or Tarazu whatever the election symbol available on the ballot papers as we have an alliance with Jamat-e-Islami,” the PTI chief told the crowd.
Imran urged his supporters, including students to launch door-to-door campaign in favour of his party and asked the children to force their parents to vote for PTI.
