LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called a meeting of senior leaders of the PML-N to deliberate legal options, including vote of confidence, to block a PTI move to disband assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Shehbaz 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 Pervaiz 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 tonight (Saturday). He aims at mounting pressure on the coalition government in Centre to call early elections in the country.
Meanwhile, PM Shehbaz Sharif, in a statement, termed political stability a vital condition for economic prosperity, saying attempts to make the country default would prove futile.
He said it was the desire of someone that Pakistan might be pushed into default, but neither it would happen, nor they would let it happen.
“The people who had laid land mines 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 of the PTI.
“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 only strengthen Pakistan’s national solidarity,” he opined.
The prime minister vowed that they would rid the public of the problems of food inflation and employment like the way they delivered by removing ‘a liar and corrupt government’ with the power of the constitution.
The political miscreants by spreading anarchy wanted to force the world not to invest in Pakistan, besides hampering the efforts for rehabilitation of the flood-affected people, he added.
He said these political mischief makers were not concerned about the plight of 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.
The prime minister said for providing employment to the youth, it was necessary to get rid of ‘the political unemployed’.
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