PAKISTAN ELECTIONS LIKELY IN NOVEMBER AFTER PM SHEHBAZ SHARIF HINTS AT EARLY EXIT

Mon 17 July 2023:

General elections in Pakistan are expected to be held in November, three months after the dissolution of the National Assembly, after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stated he would transfer authority to the caretaker administration next month before the National Assembly’s term ended.

“Next month, our government will complete its tenure, [but] we will leave before the completion of our tenure, and an interim government will come in,” The prime minister stated on Sunday during a ceremony to distribute laptops at the Government College Women’s University in Sialkot, Dawn reported.

The current National Assembly’s five-year constitutional mandate will expire at midnight on August 12.

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Sharif said he would transfer power to a caretaker government before the end of his term next month.

However, he urged the people of Pakistan to decide on contrasting the PML-N’s performance with that of the four-year “saga of destruction”.

The prime minister hinted that Nawaz Sharif might run for office again. As the fourth-time elected prime minister, he pledged that Nawaz Sharif would “make Pakistan great” if returned to office.

“Nawaz Sharif Sahib will turn Pakistan into a progressive state if people provide him with another opportunity to lead the country. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the entire leadership of PML-N would change the country’s destiny by putting it on the path of progress and prosperity.”

He said they had succeeded on the ground and “foiled the conspiracies hatched by the anti-state elements” under the elder Sharif’s leadership.

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