FAISALABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry Wednesday said that his party had called for general elections at the earliest as the country was going through severe political instability.
Speaking to journalists at the residence of party’s deputy secretary general Nadeem Aftab Sindhu, he said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was seeking a refuge from the state institutions, adding that if any NRO-like relief was given to them the PTI would go for street protests.
He alleged that former premier Nawaz Sharif and former finance minister Ishaq Dar had ruined the country’s economy, citing Pakistani rupee depreciation against the US dollar.
Earlier on Tuesday, PTI expressed serious reservations over efforts to send Nawaz Sharif abroad, adding that any “NRO (national reconciliation ordinance) for the former premier and his family is unacceptable” to the party.
The statement was issued by a spokesman for the PTI after a meeting of its central leaders presided over by party chief Imran Khan. “There is no way acceptable but that of a uniform and free implementation of the law,” the statement read. “The process of accountability should be completed without any delay.” The party urged for a treatment of the ousted premier similar to that of common citizens. It also expressed deep concern over the worst decline in the country’s economy.
Published in Daily Times, March 29th 2018.
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