No development in PTI govt sans renaming Nawaz Sharif’s era projects,

ISLAMABAD_ Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s mayhem, whining, and shrieking were meant to get a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) like a concession to save his skin in the corruption cases.

“The people know what the two parties (PML-N and PPP) have done, and what the PTI has done for them and the country. It all has been fully exposed before the nation,” she said in a news statement while reacting to the PTI chief’s remarks.

The minister asked Imran Khan why he did not prove even a single allegation of corruption levelled by him against political opponents. “Why did he fail to produce evidence before the courts to justify his allegations?” she questioned.

Marriyum dared Imran Khan to tell the people how he had pushed the country into the economic quagmire while looting the national exchequer with impunity. It was a question mark as to why he was in a hurry or so much worried (for election).

She said the PTI leader seemed to be ‘mentally disturbed’ as he was naming his opponents as thieves and also calling upon his workers to strive for the ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’ (real freedom). The real freedom would only be achieved when the country would get rid of the “conspiratorial Fitna”, she added

“Old habits do not die so easily,” she said while referring to Imran Khan’s failure to decide the date for the dissolution of provincial assemblies.

Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday said Imran Khan-led government had closed down several projects of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s previous government and even renamed some of them which were inaugurated by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

“The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf regime changed the name of the PML-N’s era Youth Programme with Kamyab Jawan Programme and shelved 80 per cent of its projects,” she said while addressing a news conference flanked by Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja.

Nawaz Sharif, as the prime minister, had launched the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme in 2013 to provide employment opportunities to young people, she added.

“No ruler can achieve the objective of development by affixing their own nameplates on the existing projects,” the minister said sarcastically. The projects became successful if the same were launched with a focus on people’s welfare, she added.

Marriyum said the PTI government would not have sent its political opponents to death cells in jails by filing fake cases if it had anything to do with political norms and values.