Maryam giving up on resistance against PTI’s extended term: Khuhro

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro ‘congratulated’ Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz as she had given two more years to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Prime Minister Imran Khan at the behest of the establishment.

In a statement issued on Friday, Khuhro said that the people wanted to get rid of PM Khan and the government of PTI. He wished that people be released tomorrow from the hostile government, for which the immediate solution was to move the no-confidence motion and in-house change.

Khuhro said that the term for the general election was 2023. Nawaz Sharif and Maryam  neither wanted any confidence motion for immediate release from this government nor wanted to plan a long march.

Khuhro said that the people who had been crushed under inflation wanted immediate relief from the government, but PML-N was waiting for the elections in 2023, giving PM Khan more time to rule.

He asked Maryam to tell the people that in 1989 when PML-N presented a no-confidence motion against the democratic government of the PPP, what was the establishment’s role in the movement, which was now against the PTI government.

He said that the PPP had abolished 58-2B under which democratic governments were sent home in the darkness of the night. In 1991, the PML-N did not eliminate the 58-2B despite having a two-third majority in the House.

“Whose establishment has been the patron of whom?” asked Khuhro.

Nisar Khuhro said that the election reforms bill and EVM machines were a fraudulent strategy before elections despite objections by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) because conducting elections was the sole responsibility of the ECP. Still, the government attacked the independence of ECP, by passing the EVM law. He said they would not allow PTI to play with the votes, and the votes would not be allowed to be stolen. We would expose and challenge the undemocratic action of the PTI government at every forum, Khuhro concluded.