JHANG/FAISALABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khanalleged that former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif killed 870 people and theSharif’s destroyed the police force.

Addressing a campaign in Jhang rally, Imran Khan said that Shehbaz Sharifused the police to kill his own people as referring to the Model Townincident in Lahore in which seventeen people lost their lives after firingby the police.

The PTI chief said that half of Punjab’s development budget was used inLahore, while thirty per cent of the budget in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was usedto build institutions and thirty per cent funds were used at district-level.

Meanwhile, he vowed to reform the Punjab police similar to the KP Police byeliminating political interference and merit-based recruitment. He saidthat crime and terrorism reduced significantly in KP, and the police forcebecame an exemplary one.

Imran Khan said that the Western democracies have move much beyond, andelected leaders do not boast provision of basic facilities such ashealthcare, but rather this is the characteristic of monarchies.