– Says he will again face defeat rather go to jail
MANDI BAHUDDIN, February 18: Prime Minister Imran Khan says Pakistan has been put on right course with record exports, tax collection and remittances by the expatriates. Addressing a public gathering in Mandi Bahauddin, the Prime Minister said the inflation impacting the common man and the government is trying to ebb away its pressure by reducing taxes and duties on petrol import. Imran Khan said for the first time, the government also granted overseas Pakistanis voting right, enhanced farmers’ income, ensured the timely payments to sugarcane farmers. The prime minister said the government is bringing about an IT revolution in the country as 70% rise in IT exports has been recorded. He also said the government was providing interest free loans to the youth and Rs 1 million health insurance to every family in Punjab. Imran Khan said this is just the beginning and we have to make Pakistan a welfare state with Sehat Card being the biggest step towards it. He said by March, Sehat Card will be available across Punjab for which provincial government has allocated 400 billion rupees. Referring to the United Nations Development Program report, he said the poverty had declined in KP province which manifested his party’s performance. He said the inflation impacting the common man was also a worry for him and the government was trying to ebb away its pressure by reducing taxes and duties on petrol import. The prime minister told the gathering that for the first time in the country’s history, Pakistan had an independent foreign policy and the country was getting no dictation from any other country. He said the previous rulers kept mum over the drone attacks just because they had their looted wealth abroad. He said the government was bringing about an IT revolution in the country as 70% IT had increased. Moreover, the government was providing interest free loans to the youth and Rs 1 million health insurance to every family in Punjab. “This is just the beginning. We have to make Pakistan a welfare state with Sehat Card being the biggest step towards it. By March, it will be available across Punjab for which provincial government has allocated Rs 400 billion,” he said. Imran Khan told the gathering that the Madina State was based on two principles of justice and rule of law, failing to do which no nation could become a great nation. Criticising some media persons for advocating to allow Nawaz Sharif to address public events in Pakistan, he said how a nation could progress when people call such looters a leader. Challenging the opposition leaders to move a no-confidence motion against him, the Prime Minister said all of their designs would fall flat rather would take them to jail. “We are ready for everything. Kaptaan (Captain) is ready to thwart all of your plans. Insha Allah, you will again face defeat rather go to jail,” the prime minister said addressing a public gathering here. He said all of the “thieves and dacoits” were in fact afraid of him and reiterated his stance of giving no NRO to them until they returned the looted public money. He said not only he, rather they themselves had been labeling one another as dacoits for last 20 years. As the charged gathering chanted “diesel – diesel”, the prime minister said after three years the parliament was running without Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who every second day gathers the opposition leaders with a desire to remove the government. “Why are you in a so hurry for no-confidence motion… Shahbaz Sharif is in trouble knowing that he will not survive in Maqsood case. If you are innocent, why don’t you ask for a day-to-day hearing,” he said. Prime Minister Imran Khan said while facing the case filed by Shahbaz Sharif, he never fled abroad rather requested the court for swift proceedings and proved himself a “Sadiq and Ameen.”-NNI
