PM Shehbaz, Asif Zardari ponder strategy to counter Imran Khan

The leaders of the two major parties part of the ruling coalition on Tuesday put their heads together on finding a solution to the threat by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to dissolve provincial assemblies

Islamabad_Former president Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the PM house to hold talks regarding the current political scenario,

Both the leaders ponder over ways to counter the strategy of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to prevent the dissolution of Punjab Assembly and considered various options to fail his strategy.

Zardari and Shehbaz met at the PM house to discuss the political issues going on in Punjab.

Both the leaders discussed various options including bringing a no-confidence motion and imposing Governor’s Rule in Punjab.

Former president Zardari assured complete support to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) in the Punjab Assembly.Earlier on Monday, the PTI senior leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhary on Monday said that the final date will be given within three days regarding the dissolution of the provincial assemblies.

While talking to the media to speak on the matter of dissolution of the provincial assemblies, Fawad said that a meeting of the PTI leadership was held in this matter, in which it was decided to dissolve the provincial assemblies. He said that the Punjab and KP assemblies will be dissolved after Friday’s meeting.

He said that the PTI chief will hold a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in this regard, adding that the ticketing process is about to start.

The PTI stalwart added that the meeting also strongly condemned the arrest of Azam Swati.

Expressing his confidence in PTI supporters, Fawad said that the party leadership is confident that the public will play their part to return the mandate to PTI.

Hitting out at the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership, the former federal minister said that the PML-N should now pray that the PTI does not dissolve the assemblies.

Slamming the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Fawad advised the electoral watchdog to conduct the elections within a 90-day period instead of being a spokesperson for the PML-N.