Islamabad – New elections to be held in Pakistan within 90 days, Ministerof State for information Farrukh Habib has informed. In televised addressafter dismissal of no-confidence vote, prime minister calls for earlyelections. Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a brief televised address to thenation, on Sunday announced that he had advised President Arif Alvi todissolve Parliament and call for early elections.
His announcement came within minutes of National Assembly Deputy SpeakerQasim Suri, who was chairing today’s session in place of Speaker AsadQaiser, dismissed the opposition’s no-confidence motion against Khan afterdeclaring it in violation of Article 5 of the Constitution.
“I want to congratulate the nation that the NA speaker has rejected aregime change that was being imposed on the nation through a foreignagenda,” Khan said in his speech. “I have advised the president to dissolvethe assemblies,” he said, reiterating his allegations of the oppositionhaving “wasted its money” to buy the loyalties of PTI dissenters, as thatwould now all have gone to waste.
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Urging the public to prepare for early polls, he said it was now up to themto decide who the next government should be. “The work to form thecaretaker government [prior to elections] begins from today,” he added.
