The Opposition Leader at the Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) central leader Hamza Shehbaz has said that the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) leader Abdul Aleem Khan is used to land-grabbing and he is now being given a task of hijacking the local government system, which would not be allowed at any cost.
Hamza said this outside the house of PML-N worker Jahangir Ghauri where he went to inquire about his health. He said that the workers of PML-N are the heart and soul of the party and he shared a relation of compassion with his workers.
Hamza lambasted the PTI government for a delay in constituting the parliamentary commission to investigate the rigging allegations during the general elections. He said that if the PTI government believes that they would get away with the most-rigged elections in the history of the country without accountability, they are mistaken. The PMLN will confront them in and outside the parliament and through legal channels unless this matter is decided through non-partisan investigation and corrective action, he threatened.
Hamza further said that the PMLN Quaid Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam had been sent to prison as a result of a decision which exonerated them from all the corruption charges, which speaks volumes regarding the merits of this decision. He said that the struggle for the freedom of Nawaz and Maryam would be carried out in the court and the issue would also be raised in the assemblies.
Hamza said that PMLN was the only party that spent over Rs 130 billion for the land procurement and feasibility study of Bhasha Dam and it will be a PMLN government that would build the Bhasha Dam.
Imran Khan needs to understand that every project is not a charity drive and that money is not the only thing needed for such mega projects, they require utmost strategy, systems discipline and competence, which everyone had seen in the past 20 days that PTI does not possess, he said. Hamza further said that the people of Pakistan had already gotten a taste of change (Tabdeeli) in the form of massive load-shedding and exponential increase in the price of gas and electricity. The Prime Minsiter would soon realize that that alleging and cursing from the top of a container is very different than actually running the affairs of a country and being accountable for it, Hamza concluded.
Published in Daily Times, September 11th 2018.
