In Mardan, Rashid vows to leap over hurdles (Front Page)

Rashid said PML-N leadership did not attack others rather they waited for the time when people would vote

SHER GARH: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said on Sunday that the PML-N would not allow PTI Chairman Imran Khan to create hurdles for the march to progress undertaken by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the country.

Addressing a public gathering in Sher Garh, he said Nawaz has started a journey of progress and a campaign to end terrorism in the country. “We will not let Imran Khan put hurdles in this journey of progress," he added.

The minister added that  those who were doing ‘politics of agitation and assaults’ were not compassionate about the people of Pakistan. He added that the people will give their decision by stamping the symbol of ‘lion’ in the next elections.

He added that Sharif served the people as prime minister three times and nobody could say that his politics was not about serving the people.

Rashid said the PML-N leadership did not attack others rather they waited for the time when people would get a chance to vote. “You made the PTI a majority party and we accepted the decision and let that party serve the people,” he said. He, however, added that PTI’s government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was dependent on the PML-N support. The minister said the PML-N could prove its majority in K-P, but it gave PTI an opportunity to fulfill its promises made with the people of the province.

He criticised the government of PTI in K-P, saying that the condition of schools and hospitals in the province was unsatisfactory.

He went on to say that from Attock bridge to Mardan, he could not see a single tree planted by Imran.

The minister also said that Imran had returned unsuccessfully from Raiwind and he would again fail on October 30.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2016.