HYDERABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that the situation in the country does not indicate that the rulers are serious about the resolution of the basic issues of people.

He was speaking at a tea party at the residence of Wahab Munshi in Khokhar Muhallo on Friday evening.

Awami Tehrik leader Rasool Bux Palejo, Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party chief Dr Qadir Magsi, Hyderabad press club general secretary Shahid Sheikh and M. Parkash spoke on the occasion.

PTI chief said the conduct of opposition parties was quite shameful as they failed to unite against military dictator although they claimed to be talking of restoration of democracy.

“The agencies break opposition parties because they know how to separate them”, he said.

He said opposition parties had different viewpoints, some of them were not siding with the MMA because they did not want to annoy the USA which was supposed to help political parties reach the corridor of power.

He said he had rejected offer of becoming the prime minister because he knew that he could not get judiciary free of all influences. He painted quite a bleak picture of the country’s affairs saying improvement of standard of education and supremacy of law were the biggest challenges facing the country.

He said that supremacy of law could be enforced provided the head of state did not consider himself above the law.

“I apprehend the country would be dismembered. A recent report of CIA’s think tank has also revealed that Pakistan will disintegrate in the next ten years as failed state”, he claimed. He criticised feudal lords of Sindh for using Sindh card but never served people when they were in power. He said everywhere in the country oppressed and weak including women were being crushed because there was no writ of law.

He said in fact weak needed supremacy of law to protect them in the society and in the US people had recourse to law for redressal of their grievances for that reason the institutions there were strong.

In Pakistan, he said, one individual was looking after issues of the NFC, USA, and foreign policy. He said the system does not work like this that’s why the powerful people were getting stronger.

Imran Khan said our country had the second highest child mortality rate in the country while rulers were claiming stability in economy. He said so far gas worth $70 billion to $80 billion had been explored in Balochistan and used people in the country but conditions of that province were deplorable. He said at least Sui should have been made a model area.

He said had he been living in Palestine he would have joined any front of Hamas because circumstances changed the psyche of people.

He said Pakistan needed real democracy and refused to accept that LB elections were reflective of democracy adding that Husni Mubarak had been sitting in the country for past 27 years in the name of democracy. He said the expenses of presidency had increased by 200 per cent in the last one year.

He said our rulers must get inspiration from UK prime minister who was living in 10 Downing Street while the entire Muslim countries could not match the GDP of UK if put together. He rejected amendments to the Local Government Ordinance to make the chief ministers powerful instead of district nazims.