LAHORE: The PML-N Central Executive Committee (CEC) restated on Monday its pledge to not give the present administration any more time and to overthrow it via constitutional, legal, and political means, delegating all decisions to party supremo Nawaz Sharif.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was empowered and urged to contact Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the leader of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), and suggest that a meeting of the opposition alliance be convened as soon as possible during the CEC meeting held via video link.
Nawaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, and Abid Sher Ali of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz participated via video link from London, while Shahbaz, vice presidents Maryam Nawaz and Hamza Shahbaz, and Deputy General Secretary Ataullah Tarar attended from Lahore.
CEC’s central and regional leaders were also able to join the meeting through video link.
The meeting’s participants all expressed complete faith in the PML-leader. N’s
The meeting went over the country’s overall position in great depth.
On Saturday, the PML-N president updated the CEC members on a luncheon meeting he had with former President Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at his home.
Shehbaz informed them of the PPP’s ideas for the no-confidence vote and long march, as well as the PML-points. N’s
In the meeting, all of the participants voiced their opinions, with Nawaz providing final counsel.
According to sources, certain leaders at the conference spoke openly in support and opposition to the no-confidence motion.
Opponents of the motion claim that if it fails at a time when the general election is coming, it will empower Prime Minister Imran Khan politically, “so we must make a very careful judgement.”
Following the meeting, Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal briefed the media, saying that the current political and economic condition of the country was reviewed in depth at the CEC meeting, and that all participants agreed on it.
He claimed that Pakistan, which was on the road to development and prosperity in 2018, with the process of economic recovery and peace and stability improving, had been damaged in the previous three and a half years.
“Pakistan’s economy is a shambles. Pakistan is bound by debt. Corruption has erupted in every industry, resulting in mega-scandals. Government ministers and the government are implicated in the most heinous forms of corruption, resulting in Pakistan’s ranking as the world’s worst.”
“Pakistan is alone in the diplomatic community; inflation has reached a point where the common man cannot subsist, and every profession is concerned.”
According to Iqbal, the meeting attendees agreed that, given the people’s hardship and the country’s internal and external issues, “providing additional time to the present government is a severe threat to the country’s security.” “Don’t waste any more time with the government.”
He stated that the party has given Nawaz the authority to make any decisions necessary to save the country and the nation from significant issues in the current circumstances. “As quickly as feasible, take all constitutional, democratic, and political procedures to remove the most inept and corrupt government.”
He said the conference gave Shehbaz the authority to speed up the process of contact and consultation with other political parties across the country in order to build a national-consensus strategy to fulfil the people’s yearning to depose the government.
The meeting also authorises the party president to contact the PDM chief and other leaders, take them into confidence in light of the CEC’s decisions, and request that a meeting be convened as soon as possible to move forward with consensus and joint decisions from the PDM platform at the national level, in consultation with the opposition alliance.
He stated that the meeting has agreed to completely support and participate in the PDM’s long march on March 23. The decision to reconstitute the party’s parliamentary board and form a new manifesto committee was also approved at the meeting.
Meanwhile, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz remarked that the party agrees that Prime Minister Imran Khan should resign because of the people’s hardship, the government’s incompetence, and failure in every field.
She stated on Twitter that as long as the PTI stays in power, the people’s problems will only get worse. “On this point, not a single [CEC] member disagreed.”
Maryam stated in another tweet that all of the CEC members present at the meeting expressed full and unequivocal faith in Nawaz and that the party would back all of his choices.
