PTI – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Imran lambasts ‘borrowed’ education reforms

January 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

KARACHI: Chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has stressed the need of grooming and educating the youth to assume the country’s leadership while keeping the traditional values of the society intact.

He criticised the rulers “for toeing the American line” by trying to impose a ‘secular education system’ in the country. The new education system, according to him, would prepare an army of Pakistanis who would be American in their thought and serve their masters without giving a second thought to the welfare of the country.
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Categories: Education · Pakistan

Imran Khan asks opp not to move SC against proposed re-election of Musharraf

January 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan has advised the opposition not to move to the Supreme Court against the proposed re-election of President General Pervez Musharraf by the incumbent assemblies as, the apex court’s verdict will be in favour of the government.

“The opposition parties have no other option but to go to the masses against unconstitutional (proposed) re-election of General Musharraf by the sitting assemblies. If they (opposition parties) commit this mistake, they will be in total loss in line with the past”, Khan contended while addressing “meet the press” programme at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.

The cricketer-turned politician said he did not expect any relief from the apex court if the opposition parties took the issue of the re-election of an uniformed president there. ” Unfortunately, the judiciary is not independent. There are some no-go areas for the Supreme Court, and it cannot operate in these areas”, he asserted.

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Categories: Anti-Government Movement · News Items · Pakistan · Politics

Citizens should be allowed to keep arms

January 25, 2007 · 1 Comment

PTI Sindh president Zubair Khan has demanded that citizens should be allowed to keep arms in order to protect themselves from dacoits and bandits. The Police have totally failed to provide security to citizens. Rate of street crimes is on the rise despite government claims. People are living under desperate fright as their lucrative and lives are unsafe. Dacoity in daytime hours is a clear manifest that the provincial administration has no control over crimes and criminals.

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Categories: Pakistan