Imran Khan will be held accountable for these deaths :Kh Salman Rafique

Lahore: Advisor to Chief Minister on Health, Kh. Salman Rafique while strongly condemning the death of a number of patients in ambulances as a result of hindrances created by PTI workers at entry points and other places of the city through burning of tyres has said that Imran Khan will be held accountable for these deaths in this world and the world hereafter.

In a statement, Kh. Salman said that according to hospital sources and media reports, various patients died due to violent politics of PTI. He said that PTI workers closed entry points of the city as a result of which Sidra Riaz, a baby of 17 days who was referred by Shahdara Hospital to Children Hospital and newly born child of Kashif Aslam of Gujranwala died before reaching Children Hospital. Kh. Salman Rafique said that according to the sources of 1122, 65-year-old Amanat Ali, a cardiac patient, could not reach Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Moreover, report has also been received about the death of a 15-year-old youth in the ambulance. Kh. Salman Rafique expressed heartfelt sympathies with the bereaved families and said that all these deaths caused due to violent politics of PTI are is highly tragic.

Kh. Salman Rafique said that threatening traders, closing shops forcibly, harassing citizens and closing roads by burning tyres is not politics but fascism and PTI workers demonstrated it openly in Lahore and the entire world has seen the real face of Imran Khan through media.