Khan’s confidence stems from what he sees is a tsunami of support for the PTI in Pakistan as traditional parties falter amid charges and counter-charges of corruption and petty jealousies. Besides young men and woman of all ages, the charismatic leader inspired the upper class who never got out of their homes to exercise their right to vote. Imran Khan’s party won a good number of seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa province in the 2013 general elections and joined forces with Jamat-e-Islami and Aftab Sherpao’s Qaumi Watan Party to form a coalition government. Accusing his political opponents of massive rigging in the general elections, he launched a fierce movement demanding re-election in 32 constituencies in the Punjab province. Imran Khan had also led march into Islamabad and hold 126-days sit-in to press for a probe into mass irregularities in the elections.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to adopt latest systems of Health Information Management to ensure transparent procurement procedures and the record of the patients, ARY News reported. He was chairing a high-level meeting on new initiatives being planned in Punjab including forestry, urban land digitization, dairy and social security hospitals under public private partnership modus, in the federal capital. The meeting was attended by Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Usman Dar on Sunday said the Prime Minister House will remain in use until it’s converted into a university, ARY News reported. He was responding to a question regarding delay in conversion of the PM House into a varsity during the ARY News programme ‘Sawal Yeh Hai’. He said the Prime Minister Secretariat was also a big hall where the government could host foreign dignitaries and there no such issue in doing that. Dar said the PM’s recent foreign visits were quite.
ANKARA: Concluding his two-day official visit to Turkey, his first, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his government was fully committed to not only develop Pakistan but also contribute in ensuring regional peace and stability, ARY News reported. He was addressing a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish capital on Friday. The prime minister said that the two countries enjoyed brotherly relations spanning generations and he hoped that the ties would only strengthen over.