Country owes billions of debt due to Nawaz-Zardari partnership: Imran

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that the Nawaz-Zardari partnership had increased the country's debt by billions of rupees.

Addressing a rally and talking to the media in Layyah, Imran said the nations that learned from history always prospered and were able to stand on their feet, private TV channels reported.

“When our party comes in power, policies will change and the aim will be to ensure end to poverty,” said Imran. “The state imparts education to only a small portion of the society,” he said. “We will invest first on the people, then on metro and other underpasses,” remarked the PTI chief, taking aim at the recent unveiling of development projects in Punjab.

“This country will become exemplary,” he said and added that the country would turn into a tourist heaven similar to Switzerland. Imran said his case was also in the Supreme Court, but there were no parallels between that and the Panama Papers case.

“Nawaz [Sharif]! Don’t compare yourself with me, if you have to do the comparison the do it with Sutana Daku, Philippines' Marcos, Gaddafi,” commented Imran. The PTI chief said Nawaz claimed that he was an ideology. “Nawaz simply has a simple ideology which is to rig the elections, come into power and embezzle money,” stated Imran.

Ahead of the party chairman's visit, the city was decorated with party flags, banners by the local party leadership, especially on the road going towards the rally venue, Sports Complex. Before reaching the rally site, Imran addressed workers at the house of Jahangir Tareen in Lodhran.

He said: “Everyone knows that a historical war is being fought in Pakistan. We are fighting are Naya Pakistan, while others are fighting to maintain status quo.” He also said that it’s not that angels resided in foreign countries. “It’s just that people abide laws there.” “The institutions in foreign countries are strong. If someone is caught in corrupt practices then that person is not forgiven,” Imran added.