Former federal minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry Sunday urged the Supreme Court to appoint administrators in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the three-month constitutional period of caretaker governments in the provinces expired.
“The constitution is silent on who will be in charge of the province after the caretaker government’s tenure ends,” Fawad said in a letter written to President Dr Arif Alvi. He requested the president to refer the matter to the top court.
“The Supreme Court should appoint administrators with the sole aim of organizing elections,” he said, adding that the administrators could be serving or retired judges of the Supreme Court.
On April 22, the caretaker government in Punjab will have been in office for 90 days. Although the Punjab and KP assemblies were dissolved in January, no elections have yet taken place.
Fawad denounced Maulana Fazl ur Rehman during a press conference earlier in the day and demanded a probe into the circumstances surrounding the beginning of Maulana Fazal ur Rehman’s long march in 2019.
“Fazal ur Rehman has named people and made serious allegations. A formal commission should be made for the inquiry of the matter,” Fawad said in a press conference in Islamabad on Sunday.
Maulana Fazal ur Rehman had revealed in a press conference on Saturday that General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Lt General Faiz Hameed had assured them that Imran Khan’s government would end and new elections would be called if the march ended.
Fawad added that there had been rumours of contacts between the establishment and Maulana’s party at the time, but things have now come out into the open.
He also reacted to Maulana’s statement about not accepting Imran Khan’s legitimacy as a leader.
“You are not a national level leader,” Fawad said, adding that some people from KP might be ‘fooled’ into following Maulana but he has no support across the country.
