The Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi , on a dramatic move, Thursday signed the summary of dissolution of the provincial assembly and sent it to the governor for acceptance.
“I, Parvez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, hereby advise you to dissolve the provincial assembly,” Elahi said in a brief one-line advice addressed to the governor.
Elahi, a joint candidate of ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and the PML-Q, signed the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly summary hours after he managed to obtain a vote of confidence.
This move of Elahi’s comes after his meeting with PTI Imran Khan at his Zaman Park residence.
Talking to reporters after the Khan-Elahi meeting, former information minister Fawad Chaudhry stated that, the chief minister had sent the advice of dissolution of the assembly to the Punjab governor. Now its the Punjab governor to follow this decision, if in case he didn’t accept it, then either way, the assembly will automatically dissolve in 48 hours and these dissolutions will lead us to the next general election.
Sima Khan, News Reporter , PK-Islamabad
