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Rabia Zia resigns PTI after corruption allegations !!! It is believed that Rabia Zia will join the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) with her colleagues Cricket hero Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) has suffered a setback as one of its founders in the UK has resigned from the party after levelling serious allegations at the party leadership, questioning directions of the party.
country. It is believed that Rabia Zia will join the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) with her colleagues. She denies discussing her entry into the PML-N with Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif during his recent visit to London, but the PTI’s top leaders asked Rabia to explain if reports of such a meeting were true.
Rabia Zia, PTI’s former UK coordinator, led the mantle of Imran Khan’s party in the UK when only handful activists would turn up at In her resignation letter, Raparty’s events and there were bia Zia says that she worked not many buyers for Imran for the party believing that Khan’s political message. it will work to implement She worked hard to build up “the rule of law, meritocracy and accountability”, but she the party’s structure in the UK and helped Imran Khan became disillusioned because of “morally corrupt pracraise tens of thousands of tices”, allegedly promoted by Pounds through fundraistwo PTI’s leaders. ers and membership conContinued on page 19... tributions from all over the
George Osborne makes 'billion pound raid' on NHS
Health Service Journal investigation reveals the treasury has taken back £1bn earmarked for hospitals due to underspend
"The government is clawing back money from the NHS at the same time as it is handing a tax cut to millionaires and P45s to nurses", said Andy Burnham, the shadow George Osborne is taking back from health secretary. the NHS double the amount he said "The prime minister needs to be he would in the Budget. straight with the public on his Labour has attacked the Treasury for Government's record on NHS clawing back a billion pounds that funding. was allocated for health spending this year — double the amount it On the very same day he was said it would in the Budget. boasting to the Commons about increasing NHS spending, we learn The department of health confirmed that George Osborne has made that it had underspent its allocated another £1 billion raid on the NHS funding by £1.4bn this year, half budget." a billion more than it predicted in March. Continued on Page 19... While £400m will be rolled over for the department to spend in 201213, the remaining £1bn has been returned to the Treasury. Labour highlighted that the cash was being returned while there were 6,000 fewer nurses in the NHS since the coalition took power.