PM Imran Khan's vision is to strengthen economy, bring people out of poverty: Zulfi Bukhari

LONDON: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Development, Zulfi Bukhari has said that vision and policy of Prime Minister Imran Khan was to strengthen institutions, the national economy and bring people out of the poverty, besides improving their quality of life.

He stated this while addressing the participants of an Eid Gala Dinner hosted by Rumi Malik a local PTI leader in Royal Nawab Hotel London last evening. The dinner was attended by a large number of British-Pakistanis and their families, councilors, mayors and representatives of UK based Pakistani media.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Coordinators for UK and Europe Sahibzada Jehangir Khan, PTI leader Roomi Malik, United Kingdom Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UKPCCI) President Amjad Khan, Basit Shah and Faisal Chaudhry also spoke on the occasion.

Highlighting the priorities of the government, he said that PTI government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan was committed to resolving the problems of the people and meet challenges being faced by the country.

He added that the government was focusing on strengthening national institutions for better service delivery to the masses in the country which were damaged by the previous governments of PML-N and PPP.

Bukhari added that prime minister wanted to make Pakistan a strong leading Muslim country, besides making it a prosperous and a true Islamic welfare state. He mentioned the recent speech of the prime minister in the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) summit held in Saudi Arabia, in which he highlighted the issues like Blasphemy, Kashmir and Palestine facing by the Muslim Ummah.

"Prime Minister Imran Khan played a leading role in the OIC conference", he said, adding that the PTI government had raised Kashmir issue at the international forums effectively, as compared to the past governments. He said that people of Indian occupied Kashmir were facing the worst kind of human rights violations at the hands of Indian occupations forces. He called for an end to the human rights abuses in Indian occupied Kashmir and granting them their right to self determination.

He thanked the British Pakistanis for their support to Pakistan during disasters including floods and earthquakes. He also called upon them to invest in Pakistan and take benefit from the business environment and opportunities existed in the country. He assured them that the government would fully protect their investments and facilitate them.

Bukhari said that PTI government was mulling to introduce a bill in the parliament to allow the dual nationals to contest elections but after their election as a member of the parliament, the dual national will shun their overseas passport and only hold the green passport as member of the parliament. He told the audiences that his ministry has resolved more than 6000 pending property disputes and cases of overseas Pakistanis in ten months of the government.