Pakistan to emerge as strong nation: Imran Khan

ISAKHEL: Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday said the time was not far off when the people would witness Pakistan emerged as one of the strongest states in the world.

Addressing students of Cadet College of Isakhel Tehsil in Mianwali district after inaugurating a hostel building there and breaking ground for a mega water supply scheme for Isakhel and adjacent areas, the prime minister said since his entering into politics to becoming the prime minister, the people of Mianwali had stood beside him despite the discouraging notions by the opposition parties.

“When I got first (National Assembly) seat from Mianwali, I was mocked by some people as to how I will defeat the two old political parties. When I won the 2018 election, they asked how I will make a Naya Pakistan,” Khan was quoted by APP as saying.

“All this will be done, Insha Allah. You will feel proud as the time is not far. You will just have to wait a bit more. You will see Pakistan to become one of the strongest countries in the world,” he remarked.

Advisor to the Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razzak Dawood, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, PTI parliamentarians and cadet college students attended the event.

Imran Khan said the people of Mianwali had stood by him when no one was with him.

They stood by him when it was questioned how a sportsman could do politics. “The people of Isakhel won me the first (assembly) seat for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI),” he recalled.

Reiterating his firmness on his decision to nominate Usman Buzdar as Punjab chief minister, he said a person hailing from a backward area could well realize the needs and pains of the underdeveloped areas instead of those who lived in palaces at Lahore.

“Those living in palaces in Lahore and getting their medical checkup in London, when become chief minister, cannot feel how the people (of backward areas) live,” he remarked.

He said likewise Mianwali, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bhakkar, Rajanpur and Taunsa were also backward with similar dearth of education, water supply and healthcare facilities.