PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) Jan,18 – The opposition party led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government on Wednesday in a bid to force Pakistan to hold early parliamentary elections. state.
Under the regulations, new elections of two provincial councils were to be held within his 90 days, and Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of Pakistan announced that the central government would hold provincial elections. are betting that they cannot afford to hold the election separately from the national election. otherwise until October.
Pakistan has four provinces, he said, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the northwest and Punjab in the east accounting for more than half of her population of 220 million.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Ghulam Ali said he had accepted the PTI government’s offer to resign a day earlier, telling reporters he had “no choice.”
Pakistan International Cricket The former captain of his team, 70-year-old Khan, has been calling for early polls since he was ousted in a confidence vote in parliament in April. He also led a nationwide protest campaign against his successor, Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif, and was shot and wounded at a rally in October.
Sharif’s government has repeatedly rejected calls for early polls as it tries to pull the economy out of a deep crisis exacerbated by last year’s devastating floods.
