Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday claimed that a night before the National Assembly (NA) passed the no-confidence motion against former prime minister Imran Khan, one of his ministers had threatened him to either accept early elections or face martial law.
“I would like to share with this house that the night before the no-confidence motion [was passed], I was sent a message, a threat that either we accept early elections or face martial law,” he said on the floor of the NA, adding that this threat was conveyed to him by a government minister via a colleague.
Bilawal went on to say that the threat was an attempt to foil the no-confidence motion against the former prime minister which, despite the provocations of the PTI, was successful within the parameters of the law and the Constitution.
