ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said on Monday that he would quit politics if Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan succeeded in implementing his party’s 100-day plan in the case the party formed government after the coming general elections in the country.

“The plan is nothing but a political stunt and has been announced to misguide people,” he said while speaking to reporters at Parliament House. The PTI had formed a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the 2013 elections. If it was able to implement such plans it would have implemented them in the province during the past five years, he added.

Imran Khan had on Sunday announced his party’s 100-day plan if it forms government after the coming general elections. According to the plan, Pakistan would be made a welfare state within 100 days of the party’s government. Under the plan, 10 million jobs will be generated, complete autonomy will be given to southern Punjab and five million houses will be built.

Mr Shah said the plan was not practical. It was the right of every party to present its programmes, but they should be based on facts, he added.

In response to Mr Khan’s claim that a PTI government would generate 10 million jobs in the country, Mr Shah claimed that the PTI-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had not provided jobs even to 5,000 people over the past five years.

He termed the PTI’s call for the formation of a southern Punjab province just an election slogan.

“Only the Pakistan Peoples Party raised the issue of southern Punjab province during the last five years,” he said.

Mr Shah said the PTI should have announced its 100-day plan after winning the elections and not before it.

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2018