LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed has said the PTI will raise the Panamagate scandal in the next assembly session and stressed that the constitutional institutions in the country should hold speedy trials of the incumbent rulers.

Speaking at a news conference at the Chairman’s Secretariat here on Sunday, Mr Rasheed said the PTI would shut down Islamabad after Muharram in the first phase and the whole country in the second phase, if the state institutions did not discharge their duties to nab the corrupt and punish them.

Reiterating Imran Khan’s statement, he said, the Panama Papers had not leveled any allegations but exposed facts of corruption committed by the incumbent rulers.

He said the PTI’s march on Raiwind proved that the PTI had become a major street power political party. He said the PTI would compel the rulers to present themselves for accountability.

Mr Rasheed rejected Rana Sanaullah and other ministers’ claims about the number of participants in the Raiwind march and ridiculed them by asking them to have their eyes tested.

ALEEM: Meanwhile, PTI’s Punjab central region president Abdul Aleem Khan held a public meeting in NA-122 and said the PML-N government’s last three-and-a-half-year performance was highly deplorable.

Despite spending billions of rupees on advertisements, he said, the government could not end power load-shedding though it had promised a six-month or maximum one year deadline.

Now, he said, the PML-N government was making new promises to end power load-shedding by 2018. He said the public sector hospitals and schools were in a state of disrepair.

Mr Khan lauded workers of the NA-122 and PP-147 for their best performance and participation in party’s Sept 30 Raiwind march.

Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2016