Punjab Caretaker CM Naqvi calls on PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

The prime minister expressed good wishes for Mohsin Naqvi on his appointment to the office of the caretaker chief minister.

The prime minister expressed the hope that the new caretaker chief minister would perform his duties in accordance with the constitution and would play his full role in ensuring an impartial and transparent election process.

Earlier, Former prime minister and Tehreek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan while addressing a press conference and the party workers and supporters through video link from his residence Zaman Park in Lahore on Wednesday, lambasted the controversial role of Election Commission of Pakistan and asked it on what grounds it had elected caretaker chief minister for Punjab Mohsin Naqvi despite his corrupt background and political proximity with Asif Ali Zardari.

He added that those police officers, who subjected the PTI leaders and workers to severe torture on May 25, are being appointed in the Punjab.

The PTI chief not only condemned his arrest by calling it a “witch-hunt” against his party but also accused Interim Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi of backing such actions against the party.

He asserted that Naqvi is not there to conduct the upcoming elections as a neutral supervisor as he was the one who “backed the regime change operation against PTI”.

“Mohsin Naqvi just did what was expected of him after his appointment (as CM Punjab), he cherry-picked those police officers who tortured PTI workers (in the past),” said Imran Khan.

“Are such people going to conduct free and fair elections?,” questioned Imran Khan.

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Imran Khan maintained that such “oppressive tactics” cannot force him to accept a government led by “crooks and thieves” and that he will fight such people “till his last breath”.

The PTI chief said that he has given 26 years of his politics in fight against such politicians “loot poor people of Pakistan” and “stash their wealth abroad” so that they can flee the country when needed.