LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Thursday renewed the pledged to save the country from corrupt politicians. This was said by speakers of both the parties in a seminar at Minhaj University. PTI’s Core Committee member Senator Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar and PAT’s information secretary Noorullah Saddique as well as the College of Shariah and Islamic Sciences Minhaj University Lahore Chairman Dr Hassan Mahayudin, who is son of Dr Tahirul Qadri, and others also participated in the seminar titled ‘System, not politicians, are responsible for destruction in country’. Speaking on the occasion, Sarwar said that destruction and deprivation in Pakistan had been caused by corrupt politicians and corrupt bureaucracy. He was of the view that such democracy in which looters and thieves assume power was futile for nation. He stated that it was a responsibility of politicians to change the corrupt system that had become more dangerous for the society than cancer. Pakistan needs to change this corrupt and ineffective system, he said adding, “An independent foreign policy is impossible until we seek aid as beggars.” PTI leader said that the nation needed to become economically independent to save the country from approaching economic disaster. He said had America being ruled by corrupt rulers, it would have bankrupted. PAT leader Noorullah Siddique and Dr Hassan Mahayudin also threw weight behind Sarwar’s stance, saying corrupt politicians had looted the country. “‘Save the state, not politics’,” he said while quoting Tahirul Qadri. Published in Daily Times, March 23rd 2018.