Karachi: Lashing out at the rulers, Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said on Sunday that the Federal government is lacking mandate to privatize Pakistan International Airline (PIA).
Upon arrival on two-day visit and addressing the PIA employees, he said federal government has no mandate to privatize PIA, adding nowhere in the world such practices of selling out national institutions are adopted.
He said that after coming into power they would made PIA a world class airline on which the entire country would be proud of. He said that the privatization is process done by consultations but in our country it is unfortunate that the steel mills is suffering losses while the mills of Sharif are earning billions abroad.
“National institution are not for sale and we have proved that by running affairs of Khyber Bank rather than selling it out,” he said adding that there is a need to end political interference and running the institutions affairs with honesty for better results.
Chairman PTI was optimistic that his party would form next government in all provinces including the federation. He added only three months are left for this government and the next government will be of PTI and will get rid of corruption which is the basis of destruction of national institutions. On this occasion, he also planted a sapling outside the airport and inaugurated the billion tree Tsunami campaign.
