Imran Khan for completion of CPEC's western routes first

SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Sunday demanded of the government to first undertake building of routes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

“Once the people of Balochistan reunited with the rest of the country, all the separatist movements would automatically come to an end,” Imran Khan said in his speech at a public meeting which also marked Awami Jamhoori Ittehad’s coming into PTI’s folds.

Speaking about PTI’s performance in KP, Khan said the incumbent provincial government was utilizing the national resources for accomplishing development and welfare of the people.

“Earlier, the country’s wealth was being transferred overseas,” he regretted, adding, the PTI would no longer need to carry out election campaign for the next general elections, as the people will be able to witness difference themselves.

Imran Khan called upon the KP Accountability Bureau to also take to task other parties in case they are found involved in corrupt practices.

He reiterated that there would be zero loadshedding in KP if the authority to control the province’s electricity is handed over to PTI’s government.

Khan called for completion of the Western routes first under the CPEC.

He vowed to equip KP’s public hospitals with modern facilities in the current tenure of the PTI’s provincial government.

KP Chief Minister, Pervez Khattak, Speaker KP Assembly, Asad Qaiser and Shahram Khan Tarkai also addressed the public meeting.