On the advice of the chief minister Mahmood Khan, the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dissolved the provincial legislature in an effort to compel early elections.
The KP Chief Minister wrote a summary to the governor on Tuesday night, recommending him to dissolve the provincial legislature as part of a bigger PTI strategy to prepare for the next general elections.
The governor of the nation’s northwest was cited in the summary “I, Haji Ghulam Ali, the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hereby dissolve the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with immediate effect in accordance with Clause (1) of Article 112 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. The Provincial Cabinet has also been disbanded going forward.”
It further stated that the current chief executive, Mahmood Khan, would continue to oversee provincial matters until the caretaker chief minister was chosen.
Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, planned the dissolution of two provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, where his coalition holds a majority. Khan was deposed from his position as prime minister by a no-confidence vote in the spring of 2022.
His move is anticipated to increase political unrest in a cash-strapped nation that is currently experiencing a serious crisis as a result of delays in the receipt of an IMF loan, even though the old ruling party appears enthusiastic about applying pressure to the current administration.
However, the incumbent Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet members continued to oppose him, calling his moves for dissolving the assemblies and calling for the next general elections unconstitutional. Imran Khan, a populist leader, believes that snap elections will help the economic woes of the South Asian nation, despite the country being in the midst of the worst economic crisis in recent memory.
