- Interior minister denies receiving message of new interim setup.
- Says PTI engineers narratives to create political instability.
- Fawad Chaudhry calls technocratic setup bid a joke.
An attempt by Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to build up the narrative of a potential technocrat setup is aimed at stoking political instability and uncertainty, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said.
The federal minister said while responding to a statement of PTI Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry, who had earlier said: “It’s a joke to bring a government of technocrats for two-and-a-half years.”
Fawad, while addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday, emphasised that the “unelected people” cannot resolve the problems facing the country, by simply importing some technocrats from the United States.
Speaking in Geo News programme ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada kay Sath’ on Wednesday, Sanaullah snubbed Fawad’s statement, saying the establishment neither approached the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) nor the PTI in connection with the technocratic setup.
“Imran Khan concocts fresh stories every other day, however, no message regarding the technocratic setup was conveyed,” he added.
He stated that the institution has pledged to the nation that it will remain apolitical. From now on, whatever happens will be in line with the Constitution, he added.
The PML-N-led government is making all out efforts to put the economy back on track, he said. The solution to the current problems is the charter of economy, not elections, he asserted.
