Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday called the year 2013 the “year of change” and urged the people to vote for a change in the new year to get rid of the corrupt, inept and untruthful rulers who were the reason for the miseries they had been facing for the past five years.
Khan said that it was a blessing that the general elections were also coming closer after the country saw worst rule for five long years.
“With the advent of the new year, I wish and pray that my people take bold decisions and vote out those rulers who have done nothing for their cause in the past five years. Year 2012 proved to be very tragic for the country. We saw that inflation, destruction and price-hike touched new highs. During this year, the government itself accepted that Rs 5,000 billion are being looted from my countrymen every year. Therefore, a change is inevitable and we have to get rid of the corrupt lot ruling the country for the past three decades,” Khan said. “It is the right time for the people of Pakistan to choose honest and able leaders who can feel and share their suffering and concerns. It is unbelievable for me to note that neither motorists are able to get CNG nor they are being provided petrol at fuel stations even in the federal capital. If this is the situation in capital, one can easily understand the plight of the people in the rural areas. Despite waiting in long queues for hours, the people are being given less than two litres of petrol, which is the costlier source of energy for their vehicles. Such scenes have never been witnessed in Pakistan,” he added.
“Whether it was Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, incompetence and corruption was a hallmark and the PPP and its allied parties in the centre and the PML-N and a coterie of turncoats from the PML-Q unleashed worst sort of rule in Punjab”.
