Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday said that the people of Pakistan have become tired of rampant corruption and inept policies of the rulers.

Addressing a mammoth public gathering in Tharparkar's Chhachhro taluka, he claimed that the PTI would soon rid the country of all such elements.

He said Thar, like the rest of the country, has changed and people of the desert region would overwhelmingly vote for PTI and would not allow the PPP to "rig the elections as they had done in 2013".

Qureshi said both federal and provincial governments were claiming credit for the extraction of huge reserves of coal in Thar, but were tightlipped about jobs and other facilities for the people of the region.

He said the continued deaths of infants and pregnant women was ample proof of corruption in governance of Tharparkar.

He claimed that more than a thousand schools in Thar remain shut and free ambulance service from Civil Mithi Hospital had been discontinued due to a shortage of funds.

He said it was a matter of great shame that infants were still dying of malnutrition and women and men had to travel miles to fetch safe drinking water despite the "wastage of billions of rupees" in the name of Tharis.

The senior PTI leader urged the people belonging to minorities in Thar to vote for "change for the future of the country and Thar".

Qureshi used the occasion to warn ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to stop hurling alleged threats at the judiciary and judges who disqualified him.

Sharif wants to put the democratic dispensation in danger, seeing no bright future for himself, the PTI leader alleged.

He also lashed out at Asif Ali Zardari and the Sindh government for allegedly not obeying court orders to give fair rates to sugarcane growers.

He said the chief justice of Pakistan has already expressed his displeasure at the provincial government's failure to provide safe drinking water to the people of Sindh. He alleged that the judiciary is interfering in civic issues because the government has "miserably failed to even lift the garbage from Karachi and other towns of Sindh".

PTI MNA Lal Chand Malhi, leader Haleem Adil Shaikh and others also spoke on the occasion.