ISLAMABAd - As part of the plan to extend his protest movement against the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to the big cities of the country, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has announced holding a rally in Lahore on Sunday.
Looking satisfied with the size of crowd at his Karachi’s rally the other day, Imran Khan, while standing at his container in the federal capital, announced holding a big show at Minar-e-Pakistan ground in Lahore on Sept 28.
He claimed that there would be a flood of people at Minar-e-Pakistan on Sunday and the rally would be bigger than his earlier show at the same place on October 30, 2012.
Imran also announced to start ‘Azadi Razakar’ (volunteer) programme and his party’s volunteers through this initiative would go door to door to elaborate how independence could be achieved and new Pakistan built. “You will have to text ‘Azadi’ on 80022 and you will become Azadi Razakar and find details of 10 important points through SMS,” he said.
Khan also said that they would hold another big show on Friday in Islamabad like previous Friday.
The PTI chief came down hard on the federal government for “electricity over-billing amounting to 70 billion rupees last month”. He said if the masses did not protest this over-billing, the government would recover Rs 80 billion from them next month. “Why the masses have been burdened with costly electricity,” he questioned.
Khan reiterated his stance that they would make a new Pakistan as US aid and IMF would never help in shaping new identity. He said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would be in a bad position when he would be visiting US tomorrow, as Pakistanis living there would protest with slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’. He said that the foundations of new Pakistan were being laid down and now the masses were saying that they would fight against oppression and would not accept Nawaz Sharif.
“We have to think about over 110 million Pakistanis who are living below the poverty line,” he said, adding that the people were now saying that they would not tolerate tyranny and injustice any more.
“There are two Pakistan in front of us, one is of rich people and the other is of poor people,” he said.
Khan said that 110 million Pakistan had no toilet or sewerage facilities. Such people could not afford food twice a day. 65 percent in Lahore out of the total population consume unclean drinking water having arsenic. Neither there were medicines in basic health units (BHUs) nor were there sufficient doctors, he said “We have to improve the lives of these 110 million people,” he said.
He further said that his plan was to bring a uniform curriculum in the country as at the moment three kinds of education systems - Urdu medium, English medium and education of religious seminaries. “We are trying to do this in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa though it is a hard job,” he said.