Imran promises to strengthen institutions if voted to power
islamabad — Pakistan Tehreek-eInsaf chairman Imran Khan has vowed to strengthen state institutions, particularly the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), police and National Accountability Bureau (NAB), after winning the general election.
Addressing a workers’ convention here, he said Pakistan was rich in resources and there was a need to ensure transparency in governance with elimination of corruption at higher echelons of power for their proper utilisation.
With the workers convention, the PTI formally launched its election campaign in the three constituencies of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) — NA-52, NA-53 and NA-54 — for the general election, which is scheduled to be held on July 25.
Imran Khan said that laws would be introduced to ensure right to information
and keep conflict of interest in check. He also said a country-wide tree plantation campaign would be launched during the coming monsoon season by the PTI if it were voted to power.
Owing to reforms introduced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in last five years, he said, over 15,000 students of private schools had been enrolled in government schools
while the number of doctors in state-run hospitals had increased from 3,000 to 9,000.
He said the PTI after forming the government would take steps to double the revenue collection to Rs8,000 billion per year.
Criticising the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), he said the two parties ruled at the federal level during the last decade but nothing for the betterment of the masses.
“The dollar-rupee parity doubled during the last 10 years. One US dollar was available for Rs60 in 2008, which has now reached Rs125 due to bad governance and poor economic policies of both these parties,” he maintained. Likewise, he added, the foreign debt had jumped to Rs27,000 billion in 2018 from Rs6,000 billion in 2008.
Imran said the federal capital had been facing the worst water scarcity because of poor water management policies of the two previous governments.
He said former chief minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif had spent almost Rs6,000 billion on socalled development projects in the province during the last 10 years, but he should be asked as to how many universities and hospitals he had established. —