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Monday, April 29, 2013
PTI urges terrorists to allow making ‘new’ PakistanStaff Report
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has appealed the terrorists to stop terror activities during upcoming general elections and give him a space to implement his slogan of making a ‘new’ Pakistan.
He was addressing a press conference after holding a meeting of party candidates from Lahore at the party office on Sunday. The meeting also discussed in detail the election campaign strategies. During a meeting, Imran called upon the candidates to mobilise women and Tabdeeli Razarkars (TRs) in the campaign to ensure door-to-door persuasion.
Answering various queries regarding terrorist attacks in different parts of the country especially in Khyber Pukhtonkhwa, Balochistan and Karachi, Khan declared the parties which had remained a part of the war on terror and supported the Americans on drone attacks were now drawing wrath of masses for all those misdeeds.
Regardless of the matter, he said, he would also appeal the incensed people to give him a space to bring change and to make his dream true to form a new Pakistan.
In reply to a question about continuing military operations in troubled areas of the country, he categorically stated his party believed the military operation was not a solution to this problem.
On a query about allegations levelled by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman wherein he declared him (Imran) an agent of the Jewish lobby in Pakistan, Khan rebutted the allegation, saying Maulana was himself a hypocrite, and challenged if his association to the Jew lobby was proved, he would immediately quit the politics.
Khan also ruled out any chance of holding an alliance with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) or Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) before the election or even after the polls.
Khan also reiterated the nation that his party would introduce a system based on justice and equality after coming into power and serve the masses in the best possible way. He also promised that he would bring to an end load shedding in three and half years and control burgeoning inflation besides providing good number of jobs to the unemployed youth.
He said if PTI came to power, there would be an equivalent system for both the poor and the rich. He stressed that youth could play a vital role in changing the system and they should work for change with PTI a establishing a new Pakistan was essentially inevitable.
It is pertinent to mention here that Imran Khan is a contestant on a National Assembly seat from Lahore, NA-122 and Mian Aslam Iqbal was contesting election from provincial seat PP-148 from the same NA constituency, but he did not participate in the meeting due to reported differences with PTI leadership.
However, Aslam reached the party office very late to join Khan when he was just leaving for his campaign to Mandi Bahaudin and Sargodha districts. Soon after Aslam reached the office, PTI Lahore President Abdul Aleem Khan expressed his resentment and both the leaders exchanged harsh words that prompted other party workers to intervene to break the ice.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk