Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Qaiser alleged that the government wanted to create an environment that would create political instability and warned that if former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested, it would make the party more powerful. will
Qaiser termed National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s decision to accept the resignations of 34 PTI MNAs as a “gross injustice” to his office. ” declared.
After Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April last year, the party’s lawmakers resigned en masse from the lower house of parliament. However, Ashraf initially accepted only 11 resignations, and said the remaining PTI MNAs would have to appear individually for confirmation.
In a recent statement, Imran Khan indicated that his party would rejoin the National Assembly to lead a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Ashraf’s move, after which the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) de-notified PTI MNAs, foiled the PTI’s move.
Reacting to the act of the speaker of the National Assembly, Qaiser said that when you hold a constitutional office, you should take the law and the constitution into account while taking decisions, so instead of following the wishes of political figures, you should Act according to the law. “
Qaiser said Ashraf reiterated his position when a PTI delegation met him recently that he would call party lawmakers individually to confirm their resignations. However, he said the Speaker stopped the process from being completed and did something that was “absolutely illegal and unconstitutional”.
However, he insisted that PTI would not challenge the move in court.
He further said that there is a contradiction in what Speaker Ashraf said. It was not his decision to accept the 35 resignations. He was asked, he maintained.
He said that PTI wants a new mandate in the country. He said that bad governance of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Sindh is an example. Accordingly, we are making our plans for the general elections in Sindh. By-elections will benefit the party as our workers will be mobilized.
Commenting on the local body elections in Sindh, the former National Assembly Speaker said that the PTI sympathized with the QMP as it recognized their restrictions.
“Jeemaat-e-Islami Karachi Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman fought hard. He is commendable,” he said. He said that the results of local body elections in Karachi have not been revealed yet.
Asad Qaiser also said that the government may detain party chief Imran Khan before the general elections. He said the government, which he believed was “panicking”, could go to any extent but the party did not care.
“It [Imran’s arrest] will only strengthen the PTI,” Qaiser warned.
