- Says Metro Bus project to inflict huge losses to exchequer
ISLAMABAD, January 14: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan Thursday said that status quo hampered Pakistan from becoming a welfare state.
He said that after coming to power, his government would focus on welfare projects instead of Metro buses.
Addressing the local body ticket holders in Islamabad, Imran Khan said the Metro Bus Project would inflict losses of Rs 3 billion per annum to national exchequer.
He said the government considers the Metro Bus project a solution to every problem. He said the PTI emerged as “actual opposition party” after its sit-in, which he said created awareness among the people. “Opposition has a key role in democracy, and it was PTI’s role as the opposition party that led to decrease in petroleum and power prices,” he said.
Imran Khan once again complained about party discipline. He had to mention the indiscipline of the PTI workers when they yet again displayed indiscipline during the event.
Imran said that Pakistan had to be an Islamic welfare state but the status quo held it from becoming one. He said that the rulers are spending their lives like kings with borrowed money.
“Nobody can stop PTI from making a ‘New’ Pakistan. We won’t make projects like Metro buses after coming to power but projects like Chashma Right Canal”, said PTI Chairman. He also expressed grief over awarding of the local body election tickets to the relatives of the party bigwigs in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP).
The PTI chairman said the PML-N and PPP made collusion in the name of Charter of Democracy and it was due to this agreement that rigging was carried out in the 2013 general election.
He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was acting like Mughal-e-Azam while the government’s claims of progress and development were confined to advertisement.
“Farmers had to bear the brunt of government’s policy. The prevailing government also failed to curb theft of electricity,” Imran Khan said. -NNI
