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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday reached out to civil servants. To seek their help in implementing the agenda of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.
Addressing civil servants, PM Khan said he would need the support of bureaucracy to tackle the issues facing the country.
He said without their help render the agenda of his government useless. As civil servants are the executive arm of the administration.
PM Khan stressed the need for a change of mindset that has been holding the country back. And assured them that the government would support them against all kind of pressures.
He said before partition, the British ruling elite led luxurious lives. Because they were using the money of their slaves.
The prime minister said the mindset needs to change and the civil servants should think of common people as their own people.
“Accountability is a cornerstone of our government,” he said, adding that he has asked the National Accountability Bureau Chairman to not to humiliate those who the anti-graft body seeks to interrogate.
PM Khan said the corruption has destroyed the institutions beside depriving the country of its wealth.
The premier said regardless of their political affiliation, the civil servants should serve their country and should rest assured that he would be standing their side should need be.
He acknowledged the fact of fewer salaries of the civil servants but assured them that his government will address the issue soon.
Imran Khan said we found Pakistan caught in a difficult situation but the phase would pass soon.
He said from his personal experience he has learned that nothing is impossible.
PM Khan also paid a visit to the headquarters of the country’s top spy agency. He termed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as the best intelligence agency of the world and the country’s first line of defence.
Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI Director General Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar welcomed the premiere accompanied by his senior cabinet members. Including ministers of foreign affairs, defence, information and finance at the ISI head office in Islamabad.
This was Khan’s first visit to the spy agency’s headquarters since he took over as Prime Minister on August 18. After his party’s election victory in the July 25 polls.
