SWAT: Pakistan Tehreek Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that staging a demonstration against corruption is our political right.
“Corruption is a cancer of our society that deteriorated it. No one invested in Pakistan due to corruption. If the government is honest, investment comes,” he said while addressing a gathering after inaugurating an 84-megawatt hydropower project in Swat on Friday.
Speaking on the occasion, Imran said that the government’s corruption of millions of rupees had been unearthed in the Panama Papers but no one held them accountable. “On the other hand, if a poor man is accused of a robbery, he is caught and put behind the bars.”
He said that it was a system of injustice at the hands of which the nation was suffering. “Therefore, we have made a system that holds accountable the poor as well as the rich.”
He said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman only held accountable small ministers but not Nawaz, as he was involved in 13 cases. “The NAB chairman is a corrupt leader and gets transferred Rs 250 million to Dubai every month. All state institutions have become slaves of the Sharif family.”
The PTI chief said that the Punjab Police had made illegal appointments without any merit and the Punjab Police inspector general was “sitting in the feet of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif”. He said that fake cases had been registered in police stations, and added that three to four cases were also registered against him. “If government took illegal favours from the police then how will the police work honestly?” He said due to politicising of the police, the crime rate had been increasing in Punjab with each passing day.
He also mentioned that last day in Lahore his relative MNA Inamullah Niazi was rubbed at gunpoint on The Mall. He also said that the arrest of PTI supporters by Punjab Police was totally illegal, and added that the government had been using the police to save its corruption. He said that Pakhtunkhwa Police were lauded everywhere, and he was proud of the department.
Talking about the power project, Imran said that he was very happy to start this facility. “The project will be completed within four years,” he said, adding that no provincial government had started such a big project before this. He said that 150 hydropower grids had been set up, while more would be established next year to provide electricity to 1,000,000 houses.
He went on to say that such projects would bring about a revolution. “The KP hospitals will be model hospitals for other provinces.” He said that 34,000 schoolchildren had moved from private schools to government schools in KP.
