PTI to take ‘unprecedented’ decisions if voted into power again
Expressing views at an event titled, Seminar on The Economy in Freefall, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday admitted to have made blunders after coming to power in 2018, but vowed to take steps which have never been taken before to get the economy out of the crisis if his party gets another chance to rule the country.
Mr Khan said if his party came to power again, he will have better knowledge about economic challenges and their solutions, as he has decided to form an ‘economic team’ to assess them beforehand. “Our government would take important decisions which had never been taken in the past,” he pledged, while highlighting the need to think out of the box to bring the country out of crises.
Nobody took decisions for a prosperous future of the nation, Mr Khan deplored, explaining that there was need to take ‘tough decisions’. “There had never been long-term planning to lift economy, to conserve water or to protect the environment,” he reasoned.
Censuring the coalition government at Centre, the PTI chairman said it devastated Pakistan’s economy.
He said the challenges were big and warranted ‘bigger steps’ to stablise the economy. He said those sending remittances were a ‘great asset’ of the country, as neither the IMF nor friendly countries but the expats would bail the country out of crisis. “Overseas Pakistanis had supported me for Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital. But nowadays, financial assistance from expats was being called ‘foreign funding’,” he remarked. The Election Commission of Pakistan must have seen ‘foreign funding’ during the August 29 live telethon, he jibed.
Also in a tweet, Mr Khan said: “I want to thank the people of Pakistan, especially our overseas Pakistanis, for donating so generously last night. In the three hours of our telethon we had pledges of Rs5 billion.”
The nations is awaiting, that was the reply he got from the audience.
