Imran vows to bring Shahbaz’s corruption ‘proofs’ to NAB

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said he will submit to NAB proofs of corruption allegedly committed by Shahbaz Sharif. He said he would ‘thrash’ all the parties in general election, as 2018 is the year of a new Pakistan and of change.

Delivering speeches at various party membership camps in Rawalpindi, Imran alleged the Punjab government spent Rs6,000 billion development funds, but there was no new hospital while there were issues relating to clean drinking water and schools.

“The Mother and Child Hospital remains incomplete. Had half of the funds spent on the metro bus project been utilised for hospitals, schools and drinking water and job creation, the province would have changed,” he asserted.

Imran said Shahbaz would go abroad even for check-up, so would Begum Kulsoom and others but where should poor people, their mothers, daughters and sisters, go as hospitals were in a bad shape, and not a single new hospital was constructed here.

He continued the rulers wanted to mint money and hence looked for mega projects like the metro bus service, to pocket huge amounts and then transfer them abroad. “The Sharif family, the mafia collects the nation’s wealth through corruption and then takes it away. But this corrupt mafia and coterie will be eliminated in elections,” Imran claimed. “Your captain has been waiting for this time for the last 22 years and knows how to put up a fight. All parties will be facing drubbing at our hands,” the PTI chairman maintained.

Imran vowed to expose the Sharifs family, their two sons, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Asif and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for their corruption and added that the turn of ‘Ephedrine Abbasi’ (Hanif Abbasi, a local PML-N politician) was also around the corner. “All will be forced to face fate of mujhay qeun nikala,” he remarked.

The PTI chairman came hard on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari and alleged both had burdened the masses with loans. Imran said he would explain on April 29 in Lahore, why Nawaz was disqualified as prime minister. The PTI is kicking off its country-wide election campaign from Lahore later this month.

He called upon the youth to get membership of his party, as 2018 was the year of a new Pakistan and of a change and that they all should be part of his team. Imran visited the membership camps at at least five points and interacted with party workers. He was accompanied by central and local leaders of the party, besides Awami Muslim League President and local veteran Shiekh Rasheed Ahmad, who said the PTI would achieve a historic victory in elections. Imran had retained his seat NA-56, won in the 2013 elections.