Reacting to recent Indian aggression at the working boundary and Line of Control, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to come forward and give a clear statement on recent Indian aggression and drone strikes.
“I haven’t heard any statement from Nawaz Sharif over Indian aggression.”
Addressing his supporters from atop his container near D-Chowk, Imran asked whether Nawaz was quiet because he has business interests in India and millions stashed away in Western banks.
“In Naya Pakistan we will not bear oppression from anyone,” Imran said.
He lamented that the Frontier Constabulary had been redeployed in and around the sit-in in Islamabad instead of Peshawar where the police was incapable of tackling terrorism.
Give rights to the people
Talking about Balochistan, Imran lamented that the people in the crisis hit province had not been given their rights with the biggest example of gas and how it was extracted in Sui but gas was not provided to people around it for nearly 50 years.
“Why would people of Balochistan want to remain with Pakistan if they are not given their rights?” Imran asked.
He added that the only way to give the people of Balochistan their rights was to hold free, fair and transparent elections which would allow the true leaders to be elected.
“If their real leaders do not come up, then I am afraid Balochistan will go the way of East Pakistan,” Imran warned.
More dams needed
Talking about the impending water crisis, Imran said building new dams was the need of the hour to store water.
He said that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was facing water shortage and financial losses owing to lack of reservoirs built. One reason was because the right bank canal on Chashma was not built by the centre for nearly 20 years.
Referring to Kalabagh Dam, Imran said the refrain of people from Sindh was that their water has been stolen in the past and that it would happen again if the dam is built.
