Will personally train PTI workers to stop PML-N rigging: Imran

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan said Monday the PML-N will not get a chance of rigging in the elections this time as he will personally train the party workers to stop it.

Imran khan said this while addressing a party meeting and later talking to journalists here. The party decided to strongly respond to what it called the on-going bashing of the state institutions, particularly of the judiciary, by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

The PTI chairman presided over a meeting of the Punjab regional party heads here and decided to reactivate the party workers at district and tehsil level. He will visit several districts and tehsils and meet party workers there.

The meeting also held threadbare discussion on the party membership campaign in Punjab, as Imran will be addressing public meetings in several districts during next month. Those, who attended the meeting, included Jehangir Tareen, Aleem Khan, Ishaq Khaqwani, Fawad Chaudhry and Amir Kayani.

Imran asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak to facilitate all seminaries affiliated with the provincial government’s programme, as both discussed reforms in these institutions.

Pervaiz Khattak met Imran here and said the KP government has provided comprehensive support to Jamia Haqqania for the development of infrastructure. He categorically mentioned that his government did not intend to provide financial support to Darul Uloom Haqqania. The KP chief minister gave a detailed briefing to Imran Khan on the measures taken by the PTI-led KP government regarding mainstreaming of seminaries in the province. The chief minister apprised the PTI chief of the funds being issued to Darul Uloom Haqqania.

He maintained that a proposal to extend the programme of the mainstreaming of the seminaries was under consideration. Imran directed the chief minister to exclusively facilitate seminaries affiliated with the provincial government’s programme.

“The KP government has undertaken admirable measures to reform and mainstream religious seminaries. More than 2.5 million children are studying in seminaries and it is the need of hour to give those children a proper place and position in the education system,” said Imran.

The PTI chief said that more than 2.5 million children were studying in seminaries. He said the funds and support would help the seminary students assimilate in the society, bring them into the mainstream and keep them away from radicalisation.

Lashing out at the ruling elite, the PTI chairman stated that successive governments’ succumbed policies have resulted in disintegration of our society that further led to marginalisation of certain classes.

Lauding the KP government, he stated that progressive reforms were being implemented by the provincial government to better integrate seminary students into the mainstream.

Meanwhile, Imran Khan termed Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif as ‘Chota Don’ while talking to journalists here outside the anti-terrorism court. He urged the anti-terrorism court (ATC) to also summon Shahbaz Sharif as Chinese company had revealed that corruption was carried out during Multan metro bus project.

He said that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Capital Engineering Company Faisal Subhan, who took contract of Multan metro bus project, was missing from past few days. He noted that Subhan said he was frontman of Shahbaz Sharif.

Imran alleged that Nawaz Sharif was caught in Panama case and Shahbaz by the Chinese regulatory authority. Imran again alleged that a massive Rs9,000 billion were spent by Shahbaz during nine years through his chosen bureaucrats like Ahad Cheema. He demanded making public the details of these projects.

The PTI chairman pointed out that Subhan confessed to the Chinese regulatory authority, investigating corruption charges in the project that Shahbaz and his family received huge kickbacks in their overseas accounts.

"The real issue of Pakistan today is that will this mafia continue to loot the public money that should be spent on clean drinking water projects, health and education," he wondered.