- Says PML-N leaders know London flats were purchased through corruption
KARACHI, July 3: ys earlier of transforming Karachi into Paris and Lahore, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Tuesday said Lahore itself had transfigured into ‘Venice’ instead of Paris.
He said Shehbaz’s claims of development were exposed in the capital city of Punjab. He had been chasing his tail all this time by not spending honestly on people and infrastructure which led to the disastrous situation, he said.
“I am coming from Lahore and my clothes have completely been soiled,” he said while talking to journalists after landing at Karachi airport.
Following heavy rains in Lahore, streets and roads are flooded with water because of poor drainage system in the city. Infrastructure has badly been damaged, roads at different places have collapsed and six people died in roof-collapse and electrocution incidents.
Chiding the president Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for the completely botched up situation, Imran asked who was responsible for all the losses despite the huge expenditure of Rs350 billion annual development budget in Lahore. He said big projects were initiated in the city for embezzlement.
“Orange Line bus project has been flooded with water and Mall Road has been collapsed which would take billions of rupees for fixing,” he said.
The PTI chief said the whole PML-N leadership would go to meet Nawaz at Mayfair flat and it was evident which everybody knew that the property belonged to the former premier.
Reacting to reserving of the Avenfield reference he said that the process of accountability has started.
“The PML-N leadership knows that the London flats were purchased through corruption. Nawaz Sharif also stays in Mayfair flats in London,” he said.
He claimed that the PTI will succeed with votes. “Inshallah, we will plant trees across the country,” he added.
The PTI chairman said that the parties taking their turns for last 30 years have not thought about the next generation.NNI/Agencies
