Change comes through action, not words: Imran

HARIPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said that change comes from action and not words, adding that he would raise the Kasur scandal in the National Assembly.
He said only his party had the will and capability to change the system. Addressing a public gathering in connection with the by-election in NA-19, Haripur, he reiterated the pledge to change the system.
Imran Khan’s wife Reham Khan also spent two days in Haripur to drum up support for the PTI candidate Raja Amir Zaman. Imran said the people were now mature and change couldn’t be brought about through words.
Quoting the article of Nasir Khosa, a former bureaucrat, he said that the KP Police was going to be a role model for the whole of Pakistan. He added that PTI had set many precedents in KP by bringing reforms in the Police Department, the patwar culture and other institutions.
Lauding the KP government for its efforts to root out corruption and bring in reforms in many sectors, he said that if Raja Amir Zaman was contesting the election in Punjab he would not have even gone out of his home.
Imran said all the political parties joined hands to compete against the PTI in the recently held local government elections, but the provincial government didn’t use the police to intimidate its political opponents.
“When the local government elections were held, everybody accused the PTI of rigging. I said we were ready for re-election,” he recalled. He said that change could only be brought about if the police didn’t differentiate between a common man and a minister.
He said Ziaullah Afridi, who was a former minister for mines and minerals, was arrested by the Ehtesab Commission Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on charges of corruption, but the KP government didn’t intervene to save his skin.
“Have you ever heard that a minister was handcuffed by the police,” he asked the supporters chanting slogans eulogising Imran Khan. He also condemned the Kasur scandal and termed it shameful. He said that Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam and the people who are involved in this act should be brought to justice. The PTI chief said that those defending the status quo didn’t want to lose power, but his party would shatter their dreams. “We will not rest until the system is changed for good,” he vowed.