RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Awami Muslim League Chief and former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said that petrol bomb of ten rupees had been dropped on people to dampen their Eid celebrations.

Another 3.9 million people had gone below poverty line and foreign exchange reserves were not enough even for one month’s imports, he said while taking to social media website Twitter.

He said, “If elections are to be held in one day, dissolve National Assembly like we dissolved provincial assemblies, otherwise crisis will become very serious. Senior lawyers of Lahore have warned government that Supreme Court is their red line and elections will be held on April 14.”

He said that Shehbaz Sharif was moving towards contempt of court and minefield of Article 6. Confrontation with judiciary instead on focusing on reducing people’s electricity and gas bills indicates their mental balance, Sheikh added.

Rasheed said that he had already predicted that Nawaz Sharif will not come to Pakistan. Rasheed said he was not seeing any agreement with IMF even in April.

AML head said that if any misadventure was undertaken by government to hoodwink judiciary, it will use its constitutional authority. He maintained that people who were not able to show their faces to people, were challenging judiciary. He said elections would be held, otherwise decision would be taken on streets.

Published in The Daily National Courier, April, 17 2023

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