Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan on Sunday pledged to bring Tabdeeli (revolution) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was addressing a huge gathering of students, at winding up ceremony of centenary celebrations of the Islamia College Peshawar at its lush green cricket ground on Sunday, amid tight security. On the occasion, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Pervez Khattak, Special Assistant to Chief Minister, Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, vice chancellor Professor Ajmal Khan, senior alumni of the Islamia College, faculty members and others present.
A large number of students also gathered at lash green ground of the college, to participate in their historic Islamia College centenary celebrations, which started on December 11 December, ended on Sunday.
While talking to the students at the ceremony, Khan said that restraining order would be sought if the authorities take corrupt people into custody. He said those among you who have great visions will be successful in the real sense instead of those who think about being rich as there is more to life than making money; History never remembers those whose purpose in life is to make money.
Imran said that Shah Farman, provincial minister for Public Health, has promised him that in the next 2 years he will have clean drinking water available across the KP. The PTI chief asked VC of the Islamia College to use properties of college properly for endowment and give scholarships.
"We have a mission to reform the education system and the health system in Pakistan; we are facing opposition from mafias, but I want to tell these mafias that no matter what you do we will fight you and bring change in our province," he added.
The PTI chief reiterated that his party "will spend taxpayers' money on the country's poor people instead of 'wasting' it on building roads" when it comes to power. He vowed to build finest hospitals and education facilities across the province. "Although it has been delayed but you will soon see a change," he said.
Khan said performance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would help his party win next general election in the country. Khan said he would not even need to run an election campaign before the next general election as he was confident that Pervez Khattak's "good performance" will help PTI win the polls, he claimed.
"Hospitals in KP are the best in Pakistan, we do have completely neutral police, and it was KP where country's first independent accountability cell was established," he said. "We will never beg for foreign loans instead of imposing taxes, we will spend money on people," Khan said, adding that all the political parties had formed an alliance against the PTI. He informed that Shuakat Khanum Memorial Trust Hospital (SKMTH) will inaugurate on December 29 in Peshawar.
The PTI chairman said his party will also launch a cricket academy for children in K-P besides creating a number of sports facilities in the province. "Wasim Akram has already agreed, and we will soon start a cricket academy for our children who will emerge as the best cricketers."
Imran said his government fulfilled its promise by commercialising all government guest houses in KP, which saved considerable resources. "We have not privatised but commercialised the guest houses and soon will commercialise the KP Chief Minister's House," he elaborated.
Talking about the tree plantation campaign, he said that a target to grow 1 billion trees by 2018 has been set to counter global warming. He further motivated the students by calling them to join PTI in tree plantation initiative and set example.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz also visited to Islamia College on Friday, and announced a grant of Rs1 billion for Islamia College, Peshawar infrastructure development.
The PM said that the Islamia College Peshawar did remarkable service to the cause of education in the province in its century long history and called upon its students and teachers to maintain their high academic standards for meeting the challenges in different walks of life.