World News | No longer optimistic about holding general elections: Imran Khan

Lahore [Pakistan]29th December (ANI): Reacting to rumors of installing a technocratic government, Pakistan Justice Instigation (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is no longer optimistic about holding general elections in Pakistan, Dawn reports .

Speaking to media at his residence on Wednesday, the PTI chief said convincing the support of the Pakistan Democracy Movement (PDM) government was more important than the government itself. Khan was quoted by Dawn as saying that rumors of a technocratic government in the country had led him to believe that the government was not interested in holding general elections in the near future.

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Khan also mentioned that it is useless to talk about holding a general election with an “imported government”, referring to the regime of current Prime Minister Sheikh Baz Sharif. Only the establishment can make the election happen, he added, adding that “the establishment means the chief of the army”. Furthermore, he mentioned that he himself has no connection with the agency.

The former prime minister also accused the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government of being reduced to a living room party. According to the Dawn newspaper, Khan warned that “if any political engineering is tried in the next general election, the result will not be good”. Recalling that the mandate of the largest political party in East Pakistan was not accepted, he said that PTI is the largest political party in Pakistan and that denying popular opinion would lead to dire consequences, according to Dawn newspaper.

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The PTI chief had earlier claimed that General Bajwa had “reached” an agreement with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. Khan said that since both the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the PPP had foreign assets, there was no need to sign what they called an “economic charter”, Dawn reported.

Retired general Kamal Javed Bajwa was also sharply condemned by Khan, who accused him of doing a great injustice to the country and causing it to default on international loans. During their administration, the threat of default was 5 percent, and now it has increased to 90 percent, he said. (Arnie)

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