LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has termed the nation’s Establishment ‘more sensible’ than politicians, saying that it desires the assemblies to finish their tenure, ARY News reported on Sunday.
Speaking on ARY News programme ‘The Reporters’, the Punjab CM revealed that the nation’s Establishment was in opposition to the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies and wished Houses to finish their tenure.
During the interview, CM Pervaiz Elahi lambasted Pakistan Thereek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for speaking in opposition to former chief of military employees (COAS) Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, reminding him of ex-army chief’s ‘favours’ upon the social gathering.
The provincial chief government mentioned the PTI ought to bear in mind Gen Bajwa’s favours upon the social gathering, including that he was not in opposition to Khan’s social gathering however its members ought to keep away from speaking about their ‘benefactor’.
“Bajwa elevated the party’s stature from nothing and supported the government on many international matters such as negotiating procurement of funds from Pakistan’s Arab allies or the International Monetary Fund,” CM Pervaiz Elahi added.
The Punjab chief minister warned that he and his social gathering would be the first ones to defend General (retd) Qamar Bajwa if something additional is alleged in opposition to the previous military chief.
“I told Imran Khan that Gen Bajwa is ours, yours and PTI’s benefactor so fear God and don’t speak against him,” he mentioned, including that how might be so ‘ungrateful’ regardless of of many favours.
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“The injustice that Imran Khan did is that making us sit beside him, he criticised Bajwa sahab in front of me,” he mentioned whereas referring to the previous premier’s speech, whereby he introduced to dissolve the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies.
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Elahi mentioned he had “felt very bad” about all the state of affairs however couldn’t increase the problem since there have been too many individuals. “We will not tolerate this. Bajwa is our benefactor and we don’t hear anything against them,” he added.
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