The government in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will send a summary to the governor before midnight to dissolve the provincial assembly, a move aimed at forcing the federal government to call for snap polls.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government spokesman Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said on Tuesday that “Chief Minister Mehmood Khan would shortly sign the summary of dissolution of the provincial legislature and send it to Governor Haji Ghulam Ali”.
The governor has already expressed that he will not sign the summary of the dissolution of the assembly, saying that he will not be part of this “undemocratic process”. According to the constitution, the assembly will be automatically dissolved after 48 hours if the governor refused to sign the summary of dissolution sent by the chief minister.
On 14 January, the Punjab Assembly was dissolved despite the Governor of Punjab refusing to sign a summary to dissolve the provincial assembly.
Chief Minister KPK Khan chaired the last meeting of his cabinet on Tuesday and discussed the 17-point programme. The opposition members of the KPK parliament did not submit a no-confidence motion to the chief minister to stop the dissolution of the parliament for at least a week.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has a two-thirds majority in the KPK assembly. The opposition therefore has no chance of gaining anything by expressing no confidence in the Prime Minister.
Political experts believe that the federal government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in no mood to succumb to pressure from Khan to hold general elections in the country before the scheduled time expires in August this year.
The federal government will immediately hold elections in two provinces Punjab and KPK after dissolving the assembly. Federal Information Minister Maryum Aurangzeb has made it clear that general elections under the country’s constitution will be held in October this year.
By: Vaishali Verma
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