We hope state institutions to play their constitutional roles: Fawad

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said his party hoped that the state institutions would play their constitutional roles in the current political crisis.

Talking to media in Lahore, Fawadh Chaudhry said as per a general perception, the judiciary was not playing its role. He said at the time, instead of 66 per cent, general elections should be held.

“75 per cent of Pakistanis are saying that general elections should be held,” he said adding that incumbent and former finance ministers of the ruling government were fighting with each other, pointing towards Miftah Ismail and Ishaq Dar.

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He said how they could hold elections, when they could not go in public to take food. He said his leadership fully hoped that the institutions would remain unbiased. They wanted to hold general elections in the country as the government could not run the country, he maintained.

Fawad Chaudhry said the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders held a strange press conference. He said they must have courage and ask their leader Nawaz Sharif that why he took the NRO. “No one has no doubts about his corruption, yet he says that no one should call him a thief,” he said.

The PTI leader said they would be given a bigger name than a dacoit, if they will transfer Rs1,100 billion outside. If they feel bad to hear someone calling him a robber, then they should ask their leader why he committed corruption, he maintained.

He said the people of Pakistan stood by PTI chief Imran Khan. He said Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM Mahmood Khan had given the authority of dissolving assemblies to Imran Khan.

Fawad Chaudhry said the rulers got seizure attacks upon hearing the name of election.