Corrupt rulers push country towards crises: Qureshi

RECORDER REPORT

MULTAN: Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Vice Chairman of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, has alleged that corrupt rulers had pushed the country into quagmire of crises, adding that acts of bribery and injustice become the order of the day in police stations and courts.

Addressing a public meeting at Chak-7/G, Qureshi said the arrest warrant issued by the apex court against Khurram Rasool had exposed the dishonesty of the Prime Minister's House.

"The PPP and its allies have lost people's trust as they have failed to deliver," he observed.

Due to loadshedding of electricity and gas, foreign investors had stopped investing in Pakistan, he said.

He added the enemies were active to disintegrate Balochistan like East Pakistan, observing that India had planned to stop the supply of water into the Chenab and Indus rivers as she did in the case of the Ravi and Sutlej rivers.

Criticising the government's agriculture policies, Qureshi said that farmers had been pushed in hardships by compelling them to purchase fertilisers and other inputs at high rates.

The government had multiplied their miseries. Earlier, he visited Chak Amir Laleka on the request of former MPA and former adviser to CM Shaukat Ali Laleka.

On the occasion, Shaukat Ali announced joining of the PTI, along with 80 former nazims, naib nazims, former TMA chairmen and several councillors.

Addressing the public meeting at Chak Amir Laleka, the PTI vice chairman said that no one could dare to impose martial law in Pakistan now. He said that the government would not continue for more than two months.

Qureshi said that lawyers ran a successful movement for the supremacy of law and constitution in the country, pledging that now his party was running a movement of change.

He said that the PTI had become a voice of youth as well as farmers. He said that both the ruling parties (PPP and PML-N)) had put the country on the brink of destruction. The people had been buried alive due to corruption, unemployment, sky-rocketing dearness. The PTI would not allow the thieves to go Scot-free, he added, saying that his party chairman Imran Khan would visit the far- flung districts to give the people a hope of change.