No match fixing, no turns in power: Imran
our correspondents
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
From Print Edition
DARGAI/DIR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, Imran Khan, on Monday said match fixing would not work this time and his party will not let others take up power in turns once they won the election. He asked the people to reject politicians who have been tried and found wanting in paving the way for a real change in the country.
The May 11 elections will provide you with an opportunity to do away with these tested and failed politicians. The PTI is committed to making a new Pakistan and its your responsibility to support our candidates for the better future of the new generation, he told a public rally in Dargai town of Malakand Agency.
Imran Khan said Pakistan could achieve high economic growth and peace by quitting the US-led war on terror and pulling back troops from Malakand division and Fata.
The solution to the countrys problems is to stop pursuing the US dictates, put an end to military actions in Fata, particularly Waziristan, he maintained. He said stopping the military operations and withdrawing troops from Waziristan and Malakand division was his party agenda.
I won the World Cup when I was captain of the Pakistan cricket team and I will win the match in the political arena too, the PTI chairman vowed as the crowd applauded his remarks.
He added that he would not let anyone fix the political match. Coming down hard on the leaders of other political party, Imran Khan said that the PPP and PML-N leaders were hand in glove in looting the national resources.
The PTI candidates Yasir Khan, who is contesting election for provincial assembly seat, PK-98 and Junaid Akbar, who is fighting for National Assembly constituency, NA-35 also addressed the gathering.
They said the era of exploitation and corruption would end with the May 11 elections and a new Pakistan would emerge on that historic day. They said that PTI had allotted tickets on merit in Malakand Agency as the people were tired of the tested politicians.
They said that only five percent elite had control over the resources of the country, asking the people to help PTI change the destiny of the country.
They claimed that their party would launch rebuilding of national institutions that were badly affected by corruptions and nepotism. Later speaking at a public meeting in Upper Dir district, Imran Khan came down hard on the rulers for ignoring the remote areas in terms of development projects.
The dilapidated condition of the main road to Dir speaks volumes about the apathy and insincerity of the elected representatives to this area, he argued at the meeting. He also said his party would put an end to dynastic politics. Instead of the offspring of the leaders of the political parties, PTI wil give a chance to the youth to play their role in the politics of the country, he declared.
Imran Khan, who was accompanied by party leaders, said the PTI would transform Pakistan into a state where an ordinary man could become the prime minister. The rich and poor would equally be treated in the new Pakistan, he said.
He said through a transparent accountability system, those involved in plundering the national exchequer would be taken to task. The PTI would retrieve the plundered money deposited in foreign banks, he resolved. The PTI, he said, believed in youth empowerment and had allotted 35 per cent of the party tickets to the young candidates in the general elections.
The people of Dir have also become a part of the PTIs tsunami and we will celebrate the beginning of new Pakistan on May 11, he said.
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