PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Tuesday vowed to take drastic measures, including curtailing expenditure on the VVIP culture, to overcome the enormous economic challenges being faced by the country.
Addressing members-elect of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly here, Imran Khan said a committee would be constituted to review the expenditure incurred by the offices of president, the prime minister, ministers and other high dignitaries, and suggest austerity measures.
The savings through curtailing expenditure of the offices of very very important persons (VVIPs) and other departments would be spent on the people’s welfare, he added. The PTI had not come into government to rule but to serve the masses, he added.
The country, he said, was facing the worst financial crisis which it had never witnessed since its inception. About approaching the International Monitory Fund (IMF) for a loan, Imran Khan said the PTI government would take any decision in that regard after thorough deliberations.
“We have to do away with traditional politicking and set a better example of good governance within limited expenditure,” he said, as otherwise, the people would not forgive the PTI expressing their anger with more severity than the previous regimes.
He said there would be a discretionary fund for any minister for execution of any scheme as his government would rather do legislation for the elimination of the same.
Imran Khan said in today’s world nothing could be kept secret from the people and the elected representatives would have to remain careful and cautious while running the government affairs. “Having fear from the Almighty, we will have to work round-the-clock for the public welfare,” he added.
