LAHORE: The PML-N has demanded an apology from Prime Minister Imran Khan for demonising its metro bus projects while inaugurating ‘disastrous’ Peshawar BRT.

“Imran Khan should have apologised to Shahbaz Sharif before inaugurating the Rs126 billion project,” PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb said in a statement here on Thursday.

In the party’s response to the Peshawar Metro inauguration, she said the Supreme Court had clearly ruled that no government project could carry party flag colours or could be branded in any way with party affiliated identities. But Imran Khan committed contempt of court by blatantly branding a government funded project with PTI flag colours while shamelessly inaugurating ‘incomplete’ Peshawar BRT. She pleaded to the Supreme Court to take notice of this contempt.

The former Information minister said Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif built metros seven years before Imran and completed them to facilitate the masses. She said the Shahbaz government built four metros in as many cities in a record time and saved billions.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2020