Delawar Jan
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman
Imran Khan said on Sunday that his party had started the process of change from
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where PTI is spearheading the provincial government and
resolved to show the countrymen the promised change.
He said he would expand the “change” to the whole
country once his party had succeeded in KP. Imran Khan visited Peshawar to
address an election rally to muster support for the party candidate on NA-1,
the seat vacated by Imran Khan himself. PTI has fielded Gul Bacha on NA-1 to
face the Awami National Party stalwart Ghulam Ahmad Bilour in the by-election
scheduled to be held on August 22.
Imran Khan’s party has been feeling extreme pressure
regarding its promised change from people, politicians and the media. The party
has come under public scrutiny as people have been demanding of the party to act
on the change agenda and honour its promises it had claimed would take only
three months in power. Apparently, the cricketer-turned-politician and his
inexperience team in KP government are finding it difficult to impress the
people with its performance. KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had promised the
people would notice ‘change’ by August 30.
Imran Khan is also confident. He said God had
succeeded him every time in his endeavours and had faith that he would succeed this
time, too.
“Future holds good luck for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
PTI,” he added. He said the change agenda had been started in the province and
people would soon feel it. He said PTI government in KP was working on an
independent Ehtisaab Commission that would hold everyone to account. He said
all those who had looted the nation would be made to cough up the looted
wealth. With an apparent reference to Maulana Fazlur Rahman, he said neither diesel
permits would be issued nor jobs would be sold now.
He boasted the PTI government would show others by
example how to deliver good governance. He
added that his government would tap all natural resources in favour of the
province and produce low-cost electricity to light the whole of the country. The
PTI chief said his party had been working to bring reforms in health and
education sectors in the province.
He said right to information law would enable people
to have access to information. In this regard, Imran Khan attended a ceremony to
launch policy on it. He asserted that the PTI government would follow conflict
of interest principle in an effort to bring transparency in governance.
However, his words were inconsistent with his action. In Ramazan, he ignored
calls for an inquiry in a contract allegedly awarded to an advisor’s brother for
supplying free iftari to patients and their attendants at hospitals.
Once again he reiterated his promise to discourage
politics of inheritance. However, his party leaders managed to get tickets for
their relatives on seats they had vacated. Imran Khan was undisturbed and
unmoved to stop violation of his own principle. Instead, he justified. Chief
minister has already been accused of electing three women relatives on reserved
seats for women.
Imran Khan asked people to vote for Gul Bacha, the
PTI candidate on NA-1. He urged people to come out in great numbers from homes
the way they did on May 11 for him. He said the youth should turn up at the
polling stations by 7 in the morning to cast vote. PTI has been divided over
the award of ticket on NA-1 and one of the dissidents is contesting against Gul
Bacha.
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