LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central secretary information Farrukh Habib says the PTI government has decided to launch ‘Punjab Ration Programme’ for the low-income people in the province.

He said the Ehsaas Programme, suspended by the previous PML-N government, would also be revived.

Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, Mr Habib said Hamza Shehbaz remained Punjab chief minister on ‘sympathetic’ grounds but took grossly wrong decisions and eventually people rejected him in the province. Now, he said, the Pakistani nation would make Imran Khan prime minister.

In the PML-N government, he said, the dollar price increased by Rs60 but its leaders were busy in getting their cases closed.

Answering a question, Mr Habib said the PTI was not facing foreign funding case but banned funding case. He challenged that the PTI neither got funding from Israel nor India. On the other hand, he said, the PML-N leadership had deep relations with India and party leaders were also paying visits to Israel.

He said the PML-N leadership should explain [alleged] funding it received from Osama Bin Laden.

Mr Habib demanded that the Election Commission should not give preferential treatment to the PML-N and PPP and added that these parties’ leadership should be held accountable in the Supreme Court.

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2022