RAWALPINDI: Sheikh Rasheed, a former interior minister, declared on Friday that there has been a “agreement” and that the general elections will be held in October.
The AML leader stated in a series of tweets that general elections would be held in place of by-elections, and the nation would be informed about the constitutions of a new election commission and a caretaker government.
Since the PTI’s victory in Punjab, where it defeated the PML-N in by-elections and also installed its chief minister, there have been rumours that the federal government may fall. However, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has dispelled any rumours by announcing that elections will be held on schedule.
The AML director made fun of PPP Co-Chair Asif Ali Zardari, who is quarantined after contracting COVID-19, by claiming that those in isolation have also consented to hold elections.
He implied that the coalition partners have agreed to hold snap elections and that the only member of the alliance’s leadership who is opposed is “[JUI-F chief] Fazlur Rehman.”
Rasheed criticised the ruling parties, saying they had lost all political legitimacy and couldn’t run away, go to the people, or bring their people back to the nation — a dig at PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif.
“People will now make the decision. The assembly and democracy have been made fun of by them [the government]. Pakistan is now experiencing the crisis instead of Sri Lanka “Added he.
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The PDM leaders decided to finish their term at their meeting on Thursday in Islamabad and rejected the PTI’s demand to dissolve the legislature and hold early elections.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Punjab chief minister’s election case, the PDM leaders discussed the nation’s current political climate.
They adopted a resolution declaring that the SC’s interpretation in its most recent decision has caused unrest, confusion, chaos, and political crisis in the nation, which has led to an economic crisis.
The coalition government’s term would end, and the general elections would take place on schedule, according to the PDM meeting.
The resolution stated that “the wrongdoings of the Imran Khan government cannot be undone in a year; consequently, elections will be held on schedule and the messes left behind by the prior administration will be cleaned up in the next five years.”
Sources claim that as the political crisis worsens, the establishment is thinking about making a “soft intervention”. The current state of affairs has increased the likelihood that the upcoming general elections will occur soon; sources place the date in October.
