Former information minister Fawad Chaudhry confirmed on Monday that “informal communications” between the PTI and federal government about early elections, had begun, adding that if elections talks do not materialize by December 20, then the party will dissolve the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies on December 21.
“They [coalition parties in the Centre] are afraid of holding elections as they feat the PTI will win,” Fawad said in an interview with a private news channel Monday.
It should be note that former premier Imran Khan last week gave the federal government an ultimatum to either “sit and talk and give a date for the general elections” or “we will dissolve the assemblies”.
The PTI leader stated that Chief Minister Punjab Pervez Elahi and his son Moonis Elahi also want the assembly to be dissolved and elections held within 90 days, adding that the PTI had full support of its ally, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
Fawad Chahudry (@fawadchaudhry ) talks about how a new stable government is the need for Pakistan today. pic.twitter.com/BKoRE2O2uo
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Meanwhile, Chaudhry asserted that his party was seeking “betterment” in ties with the armed forces and judiciary, not “deterioration” of their relationship.
“We don’t want our differences with the army or judiciary to increase,” he said. “We are trying continuously that our differences with the institutions decrease.
“But we are seeing that constantly, despite our efforts for betterment, [there is] deterioration in ties with the judiciary and the armed forces. Some elements are exacerbating the differences,” the PTI leader claimed.
He said that some people, “maybe the government are trying to ruin the relations we are trying to improve”.
Moreover Fawad said the PTI “did not receive help from the establishment” in the 2018 general elections.
He predicted that the PTI would have won more seats in the 2018 general elections had the establishment not intervened. “In 2018, several of our candidates lost by a margin of just 1,000 votes.”
