Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Khiber Pakhtunjua Provincial Assembly was dissolved this Wednesday after the Punjab Assembly was also dismantled in a new political maneuver to force the calling of early elections at the federal level in Pakistan.
On Tuesday night, the chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhova province, Mahmood Khan, asked the governor, Haji Ghulam Ali, to dissolve the Assembly, after which the body has been dissolved under clause 1 of article 112 of the Constitution, as reported by the newspaper ‘Dawn’.
This comes after the chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, an ally of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, last week signed a petition to dissolve the Punjab Assembly.
The process was finally completed on Saturday, as Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman did not reply to Pervaiz Elahi. According to article 112, the Assembly is automatically dissolved after 48 hours if the governor does not give the go-ahead.
Khan intended to dissolve two of the four provincial assemblies to force early elections in the country when his party, Pakistan Justice Movement (Tehreek and Insaf) prevailed in the Punjab elections taking fifteen of the twenty seats up for grabs. match.
