Key Points
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said he dissolved the provincial Assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) after the former Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa advised him to do so, The News.com reported...
During a meeting with General Bajwa, where President Arif Alvi was also present, the former Army Chief suggested that if the PTI chief sought elections, he should first dissolve his governments in the two provinces, Khan said in a recent interview with a private news channel on Sunday, The News.com reported...
He also stressed that caretaker governments in both Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the provinces where Khan's party was in power before he decided to dissolve its two assemblies on January 14 and 18, respectively, are illegal after the lapse of their stipulated term, The News.com reported...
In response to the PTI's call for elections in the two provinces, the government has, time and again, insisted on conducting elections, to the national and provincial assemblies, together in October, The News.com reported...
Commenting on talks with the ruling alliance in Islamabad, Khan said he had given the mandate of negotiations to his party's Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and not to Asad Qaisar, the former speaker of the National Assembly, The News.com reported...
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