HYDERABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that he would take the accountability drive of his party to its logical conclusion.

Addressing a public meeting here, he urged the people of Sindh to get ready for bringing a change in the country. He claimed that successive provincial governments had made Sindh the most pathetic place in the country. Now the time had when the people of this province should get rid of its corrupt rulers, he added.

The PTI chairman criticised leaders of both the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and claimed that the politics of Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and their children was going to end soon.

He accused the PPP and PML-N leaders of being involved in corruption. He held both Mr Zardari and Mr Sharif responsible for the country’s financial ills, saying that there was poor governance in the country during their tenures. He also accused the PPP and PML-N leaders of damaging national institution for their rules.

Had there been a powerful National Accountability Bureau and autonomous Federal Board of Revenue and Federal Investigation both the PPP and PML-N chiefs would have been in jail, he added.

Terming Mr Zardari the “most fatal disease” for the country, the PTI chief alleged that the PPP co-chairman had bought places and hostels in foreign countries with the looted money. “The days of Zardari are numbered,” he said, adding the people of Sindh would no more vote for the PPP.

Mr Khan accused Mr Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz of speaking against the army. He alleged that the ousted prime minister was targeting the army to please his friend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He severely criticised Maryam Nawaz and accused her of speaking against the judiciary during the campaign of her mother, Kulsoom Nawaz, for by-elections in Lahore’s National Assembly constituency, NA-120.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2017