PPP MP says technocrat government unacceptable to his party and PTI both

PPP MP says technocrat government unacceptable to his party and PTI both

Abdul Qadir Mandokhail, a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmaker, said his party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) both are opposed to any attempt to impose a technocrat government in the country.

Speaking to a TV station, Mandokhail noted there was no mention of a technocrat administration in the Constitution. “PTI will not accept a technocrat government nor it will be acceptable to PPP,” he said.

He said that not a single party was in favour of an ad hoc government in the country, as journalists considered close to the establishment floated wordy proposals for an administration made up exclusively of non-aligned experts.

Some sections of the media, widely understood to be sympathetic to the military, demanded to suspend democracy and replace the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government with a cabinet of experts, tasked with stabilising the collapsing economy before new elections could be held.

Mandokhail, however, said experts were working in various sectors and influenced the decisions. He said he had already predicted that Punjab Assembly will not be dissolved despite the announcement made by former prime minister Imran Khan.

He questioned how can someone in their sane mind believe the claim of assembly dissolution when Pervaiz Elahi is influencing all decisions of the opposition.

He said the National Assembly speaker had approved the resignations of 11 lawmakers “on the basis of evidence” of their intention.

Commenting on the de-notification order issued by the governor of Punjab, the lawmaker said the legality of the notification was accepted by the court. He said the order for the vote of confidence was not nullified.

He clarified that the Lahore High Court (LHC) suspended the governor’s order regarding the de-notification of the Punjab cabinet but was not nullified.

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Notice: ob_end_flush(): Failed to send buffer of zlib output compression (0) in /home/sirfpak1/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5349