ISLAMABAD/D I KHAN    -    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s helicopter made an emergency landing in Rawalpindi’s Adiala while en route to Bani Gala from Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday.

The pilot made an emergency landing near a village in Adiala Town due to a technical problem, after which Khan left for his residence by road, the PTI confirmed in a statement released on Twitter. 

Khan was visiting DI Khan to distribute cash cheques to the flood affectees and this incident took place on his way back. When his helicopter made an emergency landing, he called his staff to send vehicles. While waiting for his cars, Khan spent time with the children of the nearby village who were playing cricket in the fields.

Addressing the flood victims at Dera Ismail Khan, Imran Khan said that it is a big responsibility to spend the donations transparently collected from the public. He said that PTI had decided to give money to the victims only for building houses.

“We have established a comprehensive verification system to distribute money to the flood victims. Under this system, the victims will give a check to the bank, and they will get the money because it is against my religion to humiliate the victims and give them money,” he said.

“We have to help the lowest class, the most important aspect while helping the poor is to maintain their dignity, was ashamed to see food being thrown from planes,” Imran Khan said.

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that in Punjab and KP every family has been given a health facility of up to PKR10 lac, with the help of which they can go to any private hospital and get free treatment

Imran Khan, after his address to the flood victims, party workers, and leaders, distributed cheques among the flood affectees of Dera Ismail Khan. 

He said that we are happy that we have done what even rich countries could not do in the country, in which the Pakistanis living abroad also helped us a lot.