LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s national and provincial assemblies candidates are running intense election campaigns going door to door, besides holding corner meetings, small public meetings and opening election offices.

Besides running campaign in the constituency, PTI candidate from NA-125, Dr Yasmin Rashid, organised a convention of doctors from the constituency under the banner of Insaf Professional Forum at a local hotel.

On the occasion, the doctors attending the convention announced their support for Dr Rashid’s election campaign.

The PTI candidate told the convention that she was involved in formulation of health policy for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and added that chairman Imran Khan revised the salary structure of doctors in the province.

She said the party also gave health cards to the KP masses for their free treatment in private hospitals.

Ms Rashid said Imran Khan also ordered free education in KP’s public schools and added the PTI’s vision was to offer free and decent education and health facilities to the masses.

PTI leader Waleed Iqbal, who launched election campaign of Imran Khan in NA-131, told a press conference that education and health facilities would remain on top of the PTI’s agenda.

Chiding the former PML-N government, he said a single rain exposed the Shahbaz Sharif government that claimed to have spent billions on the development of Lahore alone.

He said the people were now politically mature and had made it difficult for the PML-N candidates to even run their campaigns.

In an indirect reference to Maryam Nawaz moving to NA-127 instead of NA-125, Mr Iqbal said the members
of Sharif family continued to change their constituencies like they changed their statements before the Supreme Court.

PTI candidate for NA-133, Ejaz Chaudhry, said at a breakfast meeting that some localities in the constituency were
not just livable as sewage had inundated the streets and even entering houses and children were contracting diseases due to contaminated water.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2018