People have once again raised slogan for a new Pakistan: Qureshi
LAHORE: Tens of thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf cohorts Saturday converged under Minar-e-Pakistan waving the red and green flags in what analysts are calling a semi-final for Imran Khan’s...
March 23, 2013
PTI, Vice President, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, kicking off the rally said Lahoris had reiterated their unshakable resolve for a new Pakistan.
“Pakistan has once again stood up for a change. Today is the day when the slogan for a separate homeland for the Muslims of Indian subcontinent was raised. This phenomenal congregation has once again raised the same slogan”, said he in his inaugural address.
Qureshi said it was undoubtedly a new national awakening for Pakistanis, adding it's time we took some critical decisions.
"We have to decide whether our politics should be country-centric or self-centric. And we have to decide it now", said he.
He said those who called PTI a mere "Tangay Ki Sawarian" --passengers on a type of horse-drawn-carriage, which can accommodate no more than 6-7 people-- should see this mind-boggling throng of supporters gathered here on Imran Khan's call.
He wound his address up on a note of lamentation over the plight of those who had been pushed under the line of poverty over the last many years.
"Pakistan is facing the most critical of circumstances nowadays. The plague of poverty has taken such a high toll on the masses that they sometimes are forced to sell their internal organs, like kidneys, to feed themselves", said he.
