PML-N leaders set to put their heads together to prevent dissolution of assemblies
Pakistan
PM calls party meeting to deliberate options to block assemblies' dissolution
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called a meeting of senior party leaders to deliberate legal options, including vote of confidence, to block a PTI move to dissolve assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Mr Sharif, who is also president of the PML-N, would chair the meeting at his Model Town residence in Lahore where he would also be briefed on backdoor talks with Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan is expected to announce a final date for dissolution of the two provincial assemblies, where his party is in the power, at a public gathering in Lahore on Saturday. He aims at mounting pressure on the coalition government in the Centre to call early elections in the country.
Meanwhile, PM Shehbaz Sharif, in a statement, said political stability was vital for economic prosperity. Attempts to land the country in default would prove futile, he said. He said it was the desire of some people that Pakistan might be pushed into default but neither it would happen nor would the government let it happen.
“The people who had laid landmines in the economic foundations of the country, are out to do the same in the political foundations of the country,” PM Shehbaz said in a veiled reference to the political opponents. “It is required for the sake of loyalty to Pakistan and allegiance that there must be economic stability,” he said.
The people who had damaged public confidence were now out to dissolve assemblies, he said, adding their objective was to create political instability. “Political stability and economic charter can strengthen Pakistan’s national solidarity,” he said. He pledged that they would rid the public of the problems of food inflation and unemployment just the way they delivered by removing ‘a liar and corrupt government’ with the power of the Constitution.
He said the political mischief-makers were not concerned about the plight of the flood-affected population and the efforts to save them from winter, hunger and diseases as they were only self-centric and interested in their political interests. He said that for providing employment to the youth, it was necessary to get rid of the "political unemployed".
