If govt continues to deflect, PTI will go ahead 'without wasting any more time', warns party leader
After Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan directed lawmakers to “start preparing for elections”, party leader Fawad Chaudhry revealed on Sunday that the party would first go for polls in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Former prime minister Imran Khan had earlier asked his provincial legislators in K-P to start preparing for elections, saying, “we would dissolve the assemblies in K-P and Punjab this month.”
While addressing K-P lawmakers through a video link from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on Saturday, the ousted premier lamented that the coalition government rejected his offer for talks.
“My offer was in good faith for the sake of our nation,” he said while referring to his earlier invitation to the government to hold talks for the next elections.
“We had conveyed to the government that if it was willing to hold talks on the date of the election then we would sit with them otherwise we will dissolve the assemblies very soon and head towards elections,” he warned.
Imran, however, did not give a date for the assemblies’ dissolution and only directed the lawmakers to go back to their constituencies and prepare for the elections.
“I had been empowered by the parliamentary parties to decide when to dissolve assemblies while both the chief ministers of K-P and Punjab extended their full support in this connection.”
In a tweet earlier today, PTI senior leader Fawad Chaudhry said on Imran's advice party lawmakers are "preparing for elections".
He added: “If PDM [Pakistan Democratic Movement] continues to run away from the elections the way it has been, then we will go for provincial elections in Punjab and K-P without wasting any more time and the National Assembly elections shall take place later”.
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