LAHORE: Shahbaz Sharif does not face people because he knows how will people react to his development gimmickry, which now stands exposed, says PTI chief Imran Khan, who visited the inundated low-lying areas in the central part of the city.

Standing in the rainwater at Lakshmi and GPO Chowk where he went to see the situation, he said the first shower of the season had exposed the entire development narrative, which, the PTI has always maintained, was limited to newspapers and television advertisements only.

“Shahbaz will now face people’s wrath if he comes out of his secure abodes,” Imran warned. Instead of true development, he only led money-making effort. The development effort was limited to Jati Umra only, which might have become part of Paris but city certainly does not deserve that title, he told the media.

Talking about the coming elections, he said people should take it a God-gifted opportunity to get rid of these “Pharaohs,” who did nothing but make money.

“The money which was meant for the city and the country was laundered abroad. The Sharifs children have become billionaires; even children’s children have joined the billionaires club. On the other hand, every Pakistani is indebted by hundreds of thousands of rupees because they took billions of dollars loan in the name of the country only to launder them abroad.”

One must understand how they doubled their wealth in the last 10 years. The rupee devaluation in the last 10 years, which has cut the value of common Pakistani’s savings to half, has only doubled the value of dollars and other foreign currency accounts. Both the PPP and the PML-N took turns at power and made money and doubled value of their money through monetary policies of Pakistan, he claimed.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2018