Imran pledges restoration of peace in Pashtun areas

22 Apr, 2013

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan Sunday said if voted to power they will start building a new Pakistan after three weeks. Imran Khan was addressing thousands of his supporters at an election rally in Karak town, a day after he formally kicked off his party's election campaign from rival PML-N's stronghold, Lahore.
"I promise you today that PTI will never compromise and will never bow to anyone," Khan said while addressing cheering PTI supporters in a charged environment where party activists were dancing and clapping at regular intervals. "People believe me and donate money to my party generously and willingly unlike all other leaders, Imran Khan said.
Imran Khan vowed to establish durable peace in Pashtun belt through dialogue, saying that army would be withdrawn from tribal areas.
Rate of poverty has been increased during the last five years. If voted into power we will neither accept loan from the US nor beg for help, Khan pledged.
"We are going to lay a foundation stone of new Pakistan after three weeks," Imran Khan said, urging his workers to gear up and mobilise masses for voting on May 11.
He said PTI will bring peace in the country by pulling it out of the America's war on terror. Imran Khan said neither he will beg the United States nor will he seek loans from international financial institutions and efforts will be made to make Pakistan self-reliant.
While, addressing a public rally in Dera Ismail Khan he said that his party had the capacity to face conservative politicians, adding the politicians taking their turns cannot bring change in the system.
The masses should cast their vote for real change in the country, he said. "Our mission is to make the country a welfare state where peace and prosperity will be hallmark of the day," he said.
He said the masses of the tribal areas would be made part and parcel of the political system. The displaced people of Waziristan would be provided economic aid for rehabilitation.
Khan said he would call army back from tribal areas and save the military. He said the prime minister of the 'new Pakistan' would neither beg for economic aid nor get loans from the world economic institutions in the name of so-called progress and prosperity.

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