Why those elected for 6 times in Sindh, Punjab couldn’t improve police dept: Imran

F.P. Report

MALAKAND: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Tuesday asked why those who were elected for six times in Punjab and Sindh could not improve police department in their provinces.

Addressing the students in Malakand University, Imran Khan said one year was passed in sit-ins while the other one went in the probe of Panama Leaks case. “|After thoroughly analyzing two years, I can say that the country’s situation can be improved soon,” he added.

Talking on the performance of police department, Khan said that terrorism has been reduced by 70 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) due to security personnel’s effective strategies. He said we made police department apolitical in the province.

He continued that PTI will improve the system of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) after coming into power as the country can only progress by believing in supremacy of the law. He said actual democratic procedure has not yet been implemented in Pakistan.

Discussing the educational sector, Imran Khan said three different academic systems that include English medium, Madrassas and government schools are being run in the country and none of them follow merit.

The PTI chairman has said that his party will fix National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and other key institutions after coming to power in 2018.

He said Pakistan will be fixed only after strengthening key institutions. If the institutions are strong, the country will progress, he added. It was because of bad governance that the country was entangled in heavy debt, he claimed.

Imran said it does not matter if a prime minister is sent packing, what matters is the system which should be allowed to work. He opined that good governance meant improving the system of merit and the rule of law in institutions. The monarchy is the reason that Muslim countries lagged far behind in this modern era, he added.

In an apparent reference to his arch-rival former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s appearance before a NAB court, Khan said those facing cases appear in courts under an extensive protocol of 40 vehicles in Pakistan.

The PTI chief said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government brought wide-ranging reforms in the KP police and ensured merit in recruitment process as well as depoliticized the department. He said institutions like NAB and FBR needed to be overhauled.