LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Information and Culture, Azma Bokhari, has said that the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is running a “street movement” on a chartered plane, asking where have “the YouTubers who used to cry foul over aircraft have disappeared”.
She questioned how much the chartered plane would cost the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“The province does not have money to pay salaries or purchase wheat, yet its chief minister is travelling on a chartered plane. Will the middleclass chief minister bear the cost of the chartered plane himself?” she asked.
Azma Bokhari said the YouTubers had been accompanying the “middleclass chief minister on the chartered plane”, adding that those who had objected to “Punjab’s aircraft” were now seeing their own chief minister travelling on chartered planes. She said “those who committed crimes themselves blame others for them”, adding that “their leader also spent his entire life chanting ‘thief, thief’, but ultimately turned out to be the biggest thief himself”.
Azma Bokhari said the KP government should release the list of passengers who travelled on the chartered plane, details of the payment made for it and the tracking data.
She said the flight number and boarding card being shown belonged to a flight operating from Islamabad to Bahawalpur, but“the flight on which they travelled went to Rahim Yar Khan, which meant that it was a chartered flight”.
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