Fawad Chaudhry says advice has been forwarded to the governor, KP Assembly to be dissolved day after tomorrow
\n islamabad
\nPunjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday signed the summary for the dissolution of the provincial assembly.
\nn a brief one-line advice addressed to the Punjab governor, Elahi said: \u201cI Parvez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, hereby advise you to dissolve the provincial assembly.\u201d
\nInitially, a picture of summary, printed on a plain piece of paper, was circulated on Twitter by several PTI leaders. But later, Elahi\u2019s son Moonis tweeted a copy of the summary on the chief minister\u2019s official letterhead, bearing both his signature and today\u2019s date.
\n\u201cPromise fulfilled. May we see you back in the prime minister seat soon @ImranKhanPTI,\u201d Moonis said.
\nThe development came after Elahi, who had managed to secure a confidence vote from the Punjab Assembly in the early hours of Thursday, called on PTI chief Imran Khan at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.
\nSpeaking to the media after the meeting, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry had announced that Elahi had signed the summary and the advice had been forwarded to the Punjab governor.
\n\u201cIf governor does not accept the advice then, the assembly is automatically dissolved after 48 hours.\u201d
\nHe made the remarks after a meeting between PTI Chairman Imran and Elahi at the former\u2019s Zaman Park residence.
\nFawad also said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly would be dissolved \u201cday after tomorrow\u201d.
\nHe thanked Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leaders Moonis and Hussain Elahi as well as their lawmakers for standing with the PTI. He said that the country was headed towards general elections, adding that the PTI and Imran had \u201cfulfilled their promise\u201d.
\nHe said that a letter would be sent to PML-N\u2019s Hamza Shehbaz in the next two days for finalising an interim government, adding that elections would take place in the next 90 days.
\nFawad urged the federal government to abandon its \u201cstubbornness\u201d, asserting that the economy could not be fixed without holding new elections.
\n\u201cIt won\u2019t make sense if two provinces, making up 70 per cent of the country, hold elections while the rest of the country doesn\u2019t.\u201d
\nFawad called on National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to accept the resignations of PTI lawmakers so that elections could be carried out alongside the provincial seats.
\nEarlier in the day, Fawad had reiterated the PTI\u2019s intent to dissolve the two assemblies. In informal conversation with reporters in Lahore, he said: \u201cThe decision to dissolve the assemblies has already been made [\u2026] In fact, we would want them to be dissolved today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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