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Peaceful protests if demands not met: Imran Khan

By Web Desk
February 07, 2016

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday put forth five demands to the government and threatened to launch ‘peaceful protests’ if these demands were not fulfilled.

Addressing a public meeting here, Imran Khan demanded that management of PIA and Steel Mills must be reformed; petrol and kersone oil prices be reduced further by at least Rs5 and diesel by Rs20; tax payers money which he claimed was plundered stashed away overseas be brought back to Pakistan; three new taxes on electricity be withdrawn and its prices be reduced by Rs3 per unit; and salaries of poor workers of Steel Mills be released immediately.

The PTI chief warned that in case these demands were not his party would be left with no other option but to take to the streets and stage peaceful protests.

Imran Khan also called for the PML-N government to make Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) an independent institution by bringing about structural reforms in it.

He said it appeared highly unlikely that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would be able to complete his five-year term till 2018.