Asks workers to prepare for elections, set up membership camps and register their votes correctly

ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar on Friday said that the pro-longed power outages and backbreaking price hike made the people psychologi-cal patients.

Addressing a protest demonstration, organised by PTI in front of National Press Club, against load shedding and sky-rocketing inflation, Secretary Gen-eral PTI Asad said that the imported government had broken the record of three and a half years of PTI government by increasing the prices of petrole-um products by Rs 60 in just one week.

Apart from PTI Islamabad President Ali Nawaz Awan and Senator Shibli Faraz, some youth, women and children belonging to the opposition party took part in the protest.

Asad chided Finance Minister Miftah Ismail who, he said, used to say that there was no talk of PTI buying cheap oil from Russia. However, he said that now he admitted that a letter was written to Russia for cheap oil but no reply has been received hitherto.

He added that now the “imported government” said they were ready to talk if Russia offered to sell cheap oil to Pakistan.

He claimed that there had been no load shedding in PTI’s three and a half years. But, he said that today, the nation has suffered mental illness due to unscheduled load shedding and unbridled inflation.

Former federal minister Asad Umar said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan saved the country by calling off the protest sit-in on May 26. He asked the workers to prepare for the elections, set up membership camps and register their votes correctly.

He made it clear that immediate solution to all the problems of Pakistan was to transfer power to the “elected representatives” of the people. Speaking on the occasion, Islamabad chapter president of PTI and MNA Ali Na-waz Awan said that the worst load shedding and inflation of electricity had broken the back of common man.