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IMRAN INSISTS ON NEW ELECTIONS TO RID THE COUNTRY OF ALL CRISES

Imran is certain that new elections be held in order to free the country from all of its problems.

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Imran is certain that new elections be held in order to free the country from all of its problems.
According to the chairman of the PTI, rulers are avoiding elections out of fear of losing.

Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan is addressing supporters gathered outside Punjab Governor House. SCREENGRAB

Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former prime minister, said on Thursday that only free and fair elections could end the nation’s ongoing political unrest and economic catastrophe.

Imran addressed energised workers and supporters participating in a protest demonstration outside the Governor House via video link and said, “The ruling coalition is fleeing from fresh elections because they fear loss.”

Even though all roads to the Governor House had been closed before to the gathering, many people joined the protest against Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman for his “unconstitutional meddling” in the affairs of the province.

Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari, the two senior coalition figures, he claimed, have only one goal in mind: to protect their corruption.

Imran said to an enraged crowd, “Earlier leaders of the ruling alliance were taunting that if you want snap elections, you should dissolve Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) assemblies, where you have the government. But when we decided to do that [dissolution], they had brought two no-trust motions just to stop this move.

Our right under the Constitution to dissolve our governments and have new elections was exercised. However, the ruling coalition—particularly Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari—was attempting to thwart our choice. They are frightened of the elections and merely want to keep their corruption going, he continued.

The nation’s corrupt leaders, the former prime minister said, had legalised white-collar crime, and by changing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) legislation, the ruling coalition had given large-scale thieves permission to steal.

Imran asserted that he was alerting the government, the court, the civil bureaucracy, and all Pakistani citizens to the fact that the nation was at a crossroads and would suffer irreparable harm.

Everyone in the nation is aware that the current problem can only be resolved by holding free and fair elections, he stated. “I question government agencies as to why they shouldn’t be concerned about the nation. Investors and institutions from around the world no longer have faith in the Pakistani economy. All of the country’s resources are at risk because of these leaders, the former prime minister told the rallygoers.

He added that he had never seen a situation like this in Pakistan in the previous 50 years: “Our foreign exchange reserves have been wiped out, the country’s exports have decreased, remittances have shrunk, and soon we will not have means to service our international loans and commitments.”

Imran claimed that because of one man’s decision to conspire against an elected government that had saved the nation from an impending economic disaster, the nation is currently mired in an economic quagmire.

“Everyone in the world knows that when the’regime change’ operation was carried out in the nation, Pakistan’s economy was rising at an unparalleled rate,” he remarked. The people of Pakistan have rejected this imported administration, despite all of the pressure and smugness of the official apparatus.

In 66% of Pakistan, according to Imran, the PTI has been in power, and he emphasised that a resounding majority of Pakistanis desire new general elections.

Except for those who have stashed their money abroad, surveys indicate that 70% of Pakistanis want new elections held in the nation.

The political and economic unrest in Pakistan led to 750,000 people leaving the nation, according to the PTI chairman.

He stated that managers in Jabal Ali, United Arab Emirates (UAE), highlighted the fact that Pakistanis have made record investments there over the last ten years.

Imran criticised the foreign policy of the current administration, claiming Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spent more than Rs1.75 billion on travel abroad but was unable to make it to Afghanistan, where the country most urgently needed him.

He made the point that the current administration’s poor foreign policy was the reason why terrorism was out of control.

Today, maintaining the rule of law in the nation was the toughest difficulty. He insisted that the nation could not advance if we did not uphold the rule of law.

Imran claimed that Pakistan and the new Afghan administration enjoyed outstanding relations while the PTI was in power.

Several foreign leaders congratulated him for helping thousands of Afghans get out of the country, he continued.

The barrier separating Pakistan from Afghanistan is currently being demolished, and infiltration is on the rise, he stated. The current leadership are defending their wealth while billions of rupees spent on this barrier are pouring down the toilet. Separately, Imran said that the opposition’s no-confidence motion in the Punjab Assembly would be defeated while addressing the PTI parliamentary party gathering via video link.

Mian Aslam Iqbal, a senior minister from Punjab, was also present.
After the motion of no confidence, we will immediately dissolve the provincial assemblies, Imran declared.

156 of the 176 PTI MPAs in total attended the meeting; the remaining ones were unable to do so owing to travel or other obligations.

The former prime minister gave orders for all provincial lawmakers to show up at the Punjab Assembly on the day the vote of no-confidence would be heard because he was sure the opposition would lose.

He continued, “The opposition will never be able to gather 186 members; we will still adjourn the assembly.”

After the assemblies were dissolved, he claimed that the PTI would turn to the populace while the opposition went to the courts.

The MPs discussed Friday’s Punjab Assembly session and their plan of attack against the no-confidence vote during the meeting.

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