\u2014Says economic future bleak under rule of \u2018professional thieves\u2019
\nSays peaceful protest is everyone\u2019s right
\n ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister on Tuesday belabored the government for using the police against the people protesting against prolonged power outages in Karachi.
\nAddressing the people virtually from his Islamabad residence Bani Gala in a live broadcast, he said that the government imposed through US-backed conspiracy has put people\u2019s lives in extremis.
\nHe said the people are unable to comprehend what has happened to the country in just two months after the toppling of PTI\u2019s government. The ex-prime minister said the people are taking to the roads today against load-shedding asking \u201cwhere has the electricity gone?\u201d
\nCriticizing the use of power on people, he said that in a democratic society, staging protest is a way to convey their grievances to the government. He said the country can generate electricity as per requirement but the government, due to mismanagement, doesn\u2019t have the money to pay the power plants.
\nImran Khan said the country was on the track towards achieving sustainable growth, but the coalition government has destroyed it in merely two months. He asked, \u201cYou [ruling coalition] put so many efforts in the conspiracy [against PTI] but what did you give to people?\u201d
\nThe PTI chairman said the democracy doesn\u2019t function using force but morals. He invited the people to take to the roads in their respective cities on July 2 when the PTI would stage a power show in Islamabad.
\nCommenting on Turn Around Conference (TAC) being organized by the government to gather ideas for steering Pakistan out of prevailing crisis, Imran Khan said the country would come out of crisis only if half of Zardari and Sharif\u2019s wealth parked abroad is repatriated to Pakistan.
\nHe once again urged the people to stage peaceful protests in their respective cities this weekend as it would display their mood that they are not ready to accept a brute government.
\nAddressing Punjab Police and bureaucracy, the former prime minister said the faces of the police personnel who followed illegal orders of the Punjab government during PTI\u2019s Azadi March are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2014Says economic future bleak under rule of \u2018professional thieves\u2019 Says peaceful protest is everyone\u2019s right ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister on Tuesday belabored the government for using the police against the people protesting against prolonged power outages in Karachi. Addressing the people virtually from his Islamabad residence Bani Gala in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2833,9106,158,2798],"class_list":{"0":"post-268665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-imran-khan","9":"tag-invites-people","10":"tag-pti","11":"tag-roads"},"yoast_head":"\n