CHITRAL JULY 20 (TNS): No one will accept accountability led by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while hitting out at his political opponents here on Thursday,
“I want to tell the JIT, PTI and other politicians that no one will accept accountability from you. This is not accountability but exploitation. I can guarantee no one in Pakistan will accept this.” He was addressing a public gathering after the inauguration of the Lowari Tunnel.
He also hit out at the JIT members, saying they act “as if they are ‘Sadiq‘ and ‘Amin‘ like angels.” “There is no taint of corruption on us. This drama should stop. Do not test my patience anymore,” Sharif warned.
He said: “The circus of sit-ins was started as soon as we came to power, referring to the 2014 dharna [sit-in] by the PTI and Pakistan Awami Tehreek outside Parliament. They attacked the PTV building, PM House and Parliament. But we didn’t bow down in front of those fomenting unrest and chaos and will never do.
“Every morning they wake up and beg for my resignation. They should be ashamed of themselves,” he said adding the people rejected the PTI in 2002, 2008 and 2013 with God’s grace and will do so again in 2018 elections. They even rejected them in the Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir polls as well as the local government polls and by-elections.”
Taking aim at the PTI, the prime minister said the ‘Naya Pakistan’ envisaged by the party was not visible anywhere. They said they would make a ‘Naya Pakistan’. Where is that ‘Naya Pakistan’? They couldn’t even come up with a ‘Naya Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’. We are the ones making the ‘Naya Pakistan’ as well as ‘Naya Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”.
He vowed to bring Chitral at par with Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Lowari Tunnel, a project connecting Dir with Chitral, is aimed at enhancing economic growth and employment opportunities in the region.
Prime Minister arrived in Upper Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Thursday afternoon to inaugurate the tunnel. He was accompanied by KP Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, adviser Amir Muqam, PML-N leader Pir Sabir Shah and aviation adviser Mehtab Abbasi.
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