CHITRAL: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday vowed that when his party comes to power, he will not allow development funds to be transferred to party’s members in the National Assembly and provincial assemblies.
Addressing a public gathering in Chitral’s polo ground, Imran said that all across the world, the job of MNAs and MPAs is to make laws and not get involved with development funds. He also alleged that incumbent Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had distributed Rs94 billion among the lawmakers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The PTI chief said that the lives of the people could only be improved if a local government system functions well, adding that the leaders of the local government are from among the people who elect them, thus enabling them to reach to the grassroots.
Talking about his plans when his party comes to power at the centre, Imran said that his government would impose four emergencies, first being that of education. Although he lauded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government’s work in the field of education, the PTI leader said that the province still has ghost schools and is struggling to improve attendance of teachers at the schools, just like in other parts of the country, despite education emergency imposed by the KP government.
The second emergency, Imran said, would be of the environment. He added that the environment has been polluted a great deal as around 200 billion trees were cut down during the tenure of Awami National Party and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
The third emergency would be imposed to eradicate corruption from the country and rid it of the loans, the PTI chief said. The burden of debts has caused an increase in taxes due to which poor were becoming poorer, to which he vowed that his party-led government will not increase prices.
The fourth emergency on the list is to streamline administrative affairs in the country, he said.
Imran Khan was also accompanied by KP Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak and other party leaders.
Speaking on the occasion, CM Khattak said that thieves were being tried for accountability in Pakistan, in an apparent reference to the ruling PML-N leaders and the ongoing graft investigations against them.
Referring to PPP’s Dr Asim, ex-finance minister Ishaq Dar, PML-N leader Kulsoom Nawaz and Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif, the Khattak said that the incumbent leaders do not even prefer to get medical treatment from their own country. He added that world over, leaders put their country on the path of progress, but in Pakistan, they have only hoarded money.
