LAHORE, Apr 24 (DNA): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan
has claimed that during his government’s last days, he asked then Chief
of Army Staff (COAS) Qamar Javed Bajwa if he was trying to bring Shehbaz
Sharif to power, to which Bajwa responded that Shehbaz Sharif and Nawaz
Sharif are his worst enemies.
In an exclusive interview to a private television channel, the former
prime minister maintained that Bajwa used to ‘lie a lot’ and was getting
extension offers but used to claim that he is not seeking an extension.
Imran Khan claimed that despite Bajwa’s flat refusal, some generals
later approached him and persuaded PTI’s bigwigs to grant Bajwa an
extension.
Replying to a question regarding petroleum prices, Imran Khan said that
the Petroleum prices were frozen by PTI’s government because the
government wanted to make a deal with Russia.
“I had a three-hour meeting with Putin and informed him about the damage
to our economy due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, after which Putin sent
his Energy Minister to negotiate the matter with us,” Imran Khan
claimed.
The PTI chairman claimed that the coalition government including PPP,
PML-N commit to holding elections if PTI leave the government in Punjab
and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) by dissolving the assemblies but now PML-N
is running from elections.
The former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that PML-N is running away
from the elections by using delaying tactics and trying to somehow
postpone the election on May 14, but ‘We will not go beyond May 14’.
He said that the Supreme Court has made it clear that elections will be
held on May 14. Imran Khan stated that his party, PTI, will not delay
the elections beyond May 14.
Imran Khan noted that if the ruling government have any proposals, they
should bring them forward, as PTI is willing to discuss them. He said
that if they are deciding to hold elections in October, the ruling
government will find some excuse to delay them further.
Imran Khan also explained what he means by the ‘London Plan’. He
maintained that Nawaz Sharif was ensured in London that PTI will be
gradually eliminated.
He accused the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and even the
caretaker governments of being in cahoots with the PDM government led by
PML-N and said that today PTI is facing the worst human rights
violations as party workers are being openly ‘kidnapped’. NNI
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FM Bilawal gives wakeup call for those conspiring early elections
NOUDERO, Apr 24 (NNI): Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Bilawal
Bhutto Zardari reiterated his stance that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
is ready to settle the crisis by negotiations and avert any major
setback to the country.
While addressing the Eid gathering, Bilawal said that he is happy to be
with his supporters through-out Ramazan and now at Eid as well. Today,
Pakistan’s democracy, economy and the state are going through testing
times, he said.
The FM reiterated that Pakistan People’s Party once again ought to play
their role because the country is divided today and we all have to work
for the betterment of the country. The Supreme Court seems to be
divided, and the damage of in-fighting within institutions is always
bore by the common people. Both the Supreme Court and the Parliament are
at logger heads and not ready to accept each other’s decisions.
The PPP chairman said, the conflict between the Parliament and Supreme
Court is making the state in-efficient to address the issues of masses.
If the intuitions team-up to resolve the issues of public it would be
better, otherwise, unfortunately, the miseries of poor will exacerbate.
Mr. Bilawal said his party is trying to reconciliate the allies to
convince them for negotiation even with adversaries if it is imminent
for the well-being of the country. Only those societies can make
progress who can limit their political differences to elections only. If
the political parties settle down the issue of elections being conducted
on a single day we would be in a better position to aggravate the
situation of the poor public.
“We are still experiencing the ramification of last year’s flood along
with the trickledown effect of global recession. However, the
conspirators are trying to conduct an early election in Punjab that will
have ever-lasting effect on the federal and other provinces,” the
Foreign Minister remarked.
Bilawal said the PPP always stood-by the constitution, country, public
and provincial rights and warned the conspirators that they should
wake-up.
“The issue should be resolved in a way that democracy, economy, and
federal do not have to pay the price,” he said.
