KASUR, May 6: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan said on Monday that the PTI would go for developing human resources rather than building mega projects and vowed to unite people of all ethnic and sectarian backgrounds in a ‘new Pakistan’.

“We will build a nation rather than building bridges, metro buses and bullet trains because people are the actual asset of a nation who need health and education facilities to become a useful nation,” Mr Khan said in speeches at massive election meetings in Kasur, Gujranwala and Sialkot.

Thousands of supporters braved a scorching sun to listen to Mr Khan in Kasur where he addressed two huge public meetings. When he took the stage, he asked workers to remove the canopy as he (Khan) would also stand in the sun like his supporters.

The PTI chief said May 11 would herald a big change in the history of the country and lay the foundation of a new Pakistan.

He said when Japan and Germany were destroyed after the Second World War their rulers invested on the people in the shape of providing them with best education and health facilities and within a span of 10 years, the two countries saw unprecedented development and became economic giants.

He also said that corrupt rulers and politicians should be made accountable instead of entering into a deal with them by playing the role of a friendly opposition. He said a corrupt ruler or politician could not hold another corrupt ruler or person accountable.

“My party has prepared a list of 50 big fish who will face accountability if people vote us to power.”

He further said that President Zardari and his ‘brother’ Nawaz Sharif had completed their tenures and they both failed to rid the masses of poverty and unemployment. Peace, stability and a corruption-free society could only be established through justice, but the former rulers promoted the “thana and patwari culture” for their vested interests instead of serving the masses, the PTI chief observed.

Mr Khan said PPP leader Rehman Malik had disclosed that Sharif brothers secretly sent nine million rupees to Saudi Arabia and Britain through Hudabia Papers Mills and other bogus accounts. The PTI chief said that the statement of Ishaq Dar had also verified this allegation and asked the people not to vote for these people who sent their money abroad.

Mr Khan criticised Mr Malik for not taking any action against PML-N leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif for looting national wealth and depositing them in foreign bank accounts, adding that if the PPP leader had solid proof why did not he take any action against them while they were both in power.

He assured the people that after assuming power, the PTI would bring about a uniform education policy and introduce reforms in all sectors.He also said the PTI government would spend five times more money on government schools to ensure top quality education to all children.

Several schoolgoing boys and girls also stood in the railway park to listen to Mr Khan’s speech and turning towards them the PTI chief asked them to request their parents to vote for the PTI for their (children’s) bright future.

Later, Mr Khan visited the shrine of Hazrat Baba Bulleh Shah and laid a chadar there and offered fateha. Speaking at a public meeting at Municipal Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala, Mr Khan claimed that the graph of PTI popularity was galloping across the country and asserted his party was going to make a clean sweep to rid the country of old order and introduce a new system based on merit and honesty.

He also promised better health and education system and vowed to unite people of all ethnic and sectarian backgrounds in the new Pakistan.

The PTI would not let the PML-N make the Punjab government for a sixth term and the masses would lay the corrupt system to rest on May 11.

Mr Khan said the Sharifs were indifferent to the plight of the poor people and had left them alone to suffer and face misery and starvation by playing the role of a friendly opposition during the previous PPP government.

Addressing a massive public meeting near Railway Station at Pasrur, Imran Khan said: “We are going to build a new Pakistan as we have spirit and strong belief in Allah Almighty.”

He said that after coming to power “we will utilise all available resources to bring prosperity to the country as we have no vested interests”.He said all resources would be used to eradicate corruption, unemployment and sky-rocketing price hike and to lay the foundation of new Pakistan.

He said now the country desperately needed a true and honest leadership to rid it of the old corrupt lot and lead to a path of prosperity and modernisation.

He said President Asif Ali Zardari was now grooming his son to run the party who was ill at ease in Urdu.

Mr Khan said the PML-N had been in government over the past 25 years, but did nothing for the people. Over 70,000 people were kidnapped in Punjab over the past five years, but the PML-N failed to curb this menace.

Imran Khan said if voted to power, his party would hold local bodies elections within 90 days.