Imran Khan slams Punjab caretaker govt for ceasing Sehat Sahulat Card

Addressing a group of scholars via video-link from his Lahore residence, he said that Pakistan cannot progress with dual-standards of law.

He said that the PTI government launched the health card program to give health cover to middle and lower middle classes who get buried under debts if an individual contracts a disease.

PTI chairman noted that the program was lauded by international organizations under which a poor person could get treatment from a private hospital.

He said that due to the program, the private hospitals were ready to establish healthcare centers in the rural areas however everything has stopped now.

He laid down the importance of establishing a just system in society, terming it necessary for unleashing the true potential of its people.

Imran said that the West was prosperous because of rule of law on the land.

He said that everybody was witnessed to the ‘circus’ in Pakistan where the opponents were being frame in fake cases and put in jail.

The former premier claimed that the government didn’t want to hold elections in the country within 90 days which was the stipulated time in the Constitution. “Look at the circus in Pakistan,” he said of the situation.

“They [government] says that it has no money to hold the polls which is contravention of the Constitution,” he said.

PTI chairman noted that the powerful people in Pakistan get NRO while comparing it with the West where the powerful people were ‘easiest’ to catch if they do corruption.

He reiterated that his government wanted to improve relations with Russia while criticizing that in the past; such foreign policies were designed which ‘pleased’ other countries rather than Pakistan.

Earlier in his address, the ex-PM noted that people get most of their education in English, but it was not appropriate to become a ‘mental slave’ of the West.

He said that such mindset loses the ability to produce things on the own.