Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday that President Arif Alvi should be tried under Article 6.
Islamabad: President Alvi should be tried under Article 6: Khawaja Asif. Expressing his thoughts, the former defence minister said: “It is on these two occasions that the constitution has been violated. The president is not agreeing with the institution.”
“There is no need to disagree with the institutions,” he said.
Asif said: “The power structure of the country should find solutions to the problems.”
He said: “Gen. Bajwa and Faiz Hameed used to get the legislation done from us.”
“It is the responsibility of everybody to think for the sake of the country,” he added.
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Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi born 29 July 1949) is a Pakistani politician is the outgoing president of Pakistan, expected to leave office in early March 2024. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018 and again from August to September 2018. Alvi was a dentist before entering politics in 1979, when he joined Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan), but resigned later on from the party and then joined former cricketer Imran Khan’s party in 1996 and is amongst the founding members of PTI.
Alvi was elected to the National Assembly, from NA-250 Karachi-XII in 2013 and was re-elected in 2018 from NA-247 Karachi South-II. He was later nominated as the PTI’s candidate for the presidential election. He was elected as the 13th President of Pakistan after defeating Fazal-ur-Rehman and Aitzaz Ahsan, after which he resigned from the National Assembly and was sworn into office on 9 September 2018, succeeding Mamnoon Hussain.
