LAHORE, May 8: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf President Imran Khan has directed his party office-bearers to focus on contesting councillors’ seats in the local polls. Speaking at a convention on Sunday, he said the agenda for the polls was ‘opposing those who were supporters of Musharraf’.

He regretted that the incumbent rulers had eliminated politics on an ideological basis and introduced a culture of corruption and plunder.

A cabinet of 134 ministers was a burden on the economy being run by the poor by paying 80 per cent indirect taxes, he said, adding price hike and not extremism was the real problem of the masses.

He condemned sacrilege of the Holy Quran by US army officials at Guantanamo Bay and publication of a humiliating cartoon by The Washington Post.