ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) expressed unwillingness to the government’s offer for a long-term interim government set-up. PTI’s Asad Qaiser said his party is open to talks with government if it announce an election date.
The former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaisar expressed disinclination for the government proposition of forming a long-term interim government stating that no extra-constitutional demand will be accepted in any shape.
He said that Constitution of Pakistan does not provide for long-term interim government. Therefore an extra-constitutional offer like it must be rejected at all costs. He said that the acceptance of the resignations of PTI lawmakers is a political issue and is not a constitutional one.
He added that the resigned PTI lawmakers were not getting salaries and other facilities since April.
He however said that party representatives held detailed meeting with NA speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday. They requested him to accept the resignations forthwith.
The PTI leader said that they had asked the NA speaker whether he had accepted the resignations of 11 lawmakers by calling them one by one. Qaisar said the NA speaker told them that those 11 lawmakers tweeted him about their resignations.
The former NA speaker told him that they had also tweeted Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. He said the government did not want to accept the resignations of PTI MNAs.
Qaisar said that the government is afraid of holding elections. He said that “the government had delayed the local government polls in Islamabad and now it is planning to get the local body polls delayed in Sindh too”.
Qaisar said that former MNAs can use the Parliament Lodges until new MNAs are elected. He stated that 11 resigned MNAs’ parliamentary seats had been vacated. It is beyond his understanding how the month of January would pass in the present economic condition.
