Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that he is against the capitalism and believes in Islamic welfare state model, adding if his party comes into power then it will reform all state institutions. Talking to media persons here on Monday after attending a lawyers' ceremony, the PTI chief said democracy is the name of accountability, institutional independence and rule of law, adding if PTI comes into power then institutional reform will be top agenda of his party.
The PTI chief said that in a democratic setup, prime minister, chief ministers, governors and other state officials don't have discretionary funds but budget to run the government affairs. While criticizing the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Khan said that construction of roads, bridges and metro buses like projects do not build a country but imparting the masses with education is critical to develop a nation.
He further said that in Punjab no development takes place till orders are passed by the PML-N leaders sitting in Raiwind, adding that even a station house officer (SHO) of the police is not posted and transferred without the orders of Raiwind. The PTI chairman said that his ideological role model is national poet of Pakistan Allama Mohammad Iqbal while political role model is the Founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Talking about Billion Tree Tsunami project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Imran said that future generations will face environmental pollution as the biggest challenge. He said that to face the climate change issues, the KPK government has planted 1.12 billion trees in the province over the past three years for which he the provincial government of his party deserves appreciation. He said that he was ready to show the tree plantation to PML-N chief Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif who has publicly criticized the Billion Tree Tsunami project of KPK government.
He said that according to senior economist of the country Dr Hafiz Pasha, the GDP growth in KPK was 5 percent which as compared with other provinces was ahead. The PTI chairman said that his party will appoint all the people on important positions on the basis of merit and three will be no place of nepotism. He said the trees were planted over a period of three years, however, the PTI chief lamented that propaganda is being used to defame the forestry project.
The PTI chairman on the occasion declined to comment on his party's potential defeat in the by-election of Lodhran. When asked Ali Tareen seems to lose the election, Imran Khan said that it is too early to say anything as full results have not been attained yet.
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