Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday the government would not be able to sustain what his party has planned for it after Muharram and also reiterated his demand of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation and vote audit. Addressing participants of the sit-in at Azadi Square, he said that his party has planned special programmes for the Muharram as the dharna would continue in the holy month as well.
"The dharna will continue till the resignation of Nawaz Sharif. I am not going to go anywhere until I get justice," he said. To this, participants of the dharna chanted vociferous slogans against the government, saying "Go Nawaz Go." A large number of participants were wearing the party colours and face paintings to show their support their chairman Imran Khan.
The PTI chief also said that his party has decided to move court against non-publication of Form XIV by Election Commission of Pakistan. Imran Khan feels that if the ECP publishes the Form XIV on its website, it will help reveal rigging in different constituencies. Khan also urged the Speaker National Assembly to accept resignations of his party members as they are not going back to the assembly.
"I ask the speaker National Assembly that of what he's afraid of, already one and a half year has passed. Accept our resignations immediately," he said. We are here today because May 2013 elections were heavily rigged; free and fair election is mandatory as per constitution, he said. "I know the man who got extra ballot papers printed and what he got in reward; he was given a BMW and a plot in Paragon Society," he revealed.
Khan said that electoral reforms will be a futile exercise if perpetrators of the rigging are not punished. "We are the only party that took stand and decided that we have to stop electoral rigging once and for all," he said. Out of a total of 1500 votes, 7000 votes were recorded in Sargodha and then ECP officials termed it as 'typo', he said. Imran Khan also questioned as to why local oil prices have not been reduced when internationally they have declined considerably.
He congratulated everyone for NEPRA notification getting quashed on just nation-wide protest call. The government has earlier decided to raise tariff of electricity by 43 paisas per unit. Until governance issues are resolved, foreign investment would not come to Pakistan, 40,000 youth annually leave country for their jobs, he said. He said that with 60 percent of our population below 25 yrs of age; this country should focus on human development rather than metro projects. "Naya Pakistan requires perseverance and hard work, there are no shortcuts in life," he said.
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