Leading by example?: Imran gives PTI-led govt a pat on the back

Addresses rally in Khwazakhela ahead of PK-86 by-polls.


Sherinzada April 21, 2014
File photo of PTI chief Imran Khan. PHOTO: QAZI USMAN

SWAT:


The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is better than its counterparts as it is dispensing blind justice and even sacked its own ministers accused of corruption. The statement was made by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday while campaigning for his party’s candidate for by-polls in PK-86 on April 24.


Addressing a rally in Khwazakhela, Imran said K-P will soon have 350 dams which will help end load-shedding in the country. “If the authority to distribute power was handed over to the provincial government, they would have surplus electricity and would be able to sell it to the other provinces.”

The government has launched several hydropower projects in Swat and soon the region will have sufficient electricity, claimed Imran.

The former cricket captain said sports grounds will be built in every union council to divert the youth’s attention towards healthy activities.

Talking about security affairs, the PTI leader claimed the provincial police have been made completely autonomous. “If the Karachi police was made as independent, law and order in the port city would improve tremendously.”

Imran lashed out at the National Highways Authority (NHA), saying if it does not want to construct roads in Swat, the contract will be given to the provincial government. Not a single project has been completed by the NHA in the district since the past five years, he pointed out.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 21st, 2014.

COMMENTS (39)

Omar Marwat | 10 years ago | Reply

Those who say that PTI has done nothing in KPK surely don't live in here. I voted PTI on 11th May but not because i was a PTI supporter but we were just fed up of the past corrupt, incompetent Molvi, Anp govts and their politics. And well, i don't regret my choice, it was, is & will be a right one.

Adnan Siddiqi | 10 years ago | Reply

@Haroon Khan:

Dude, I concur. So we will just stick with what good has been done thus far and not be patting backs and declaring that KPK is better than its counterparts in any form.

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