LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry has expressed fears that plans are being made to extend the tenure of the current coalition government by declaring an “economic emergency.”
In a series of tweets, the former information minister warned that this could have severe security implications, putting the country’s nuclear program at risk and jeopardising people’s freedom.
Chaudhry emphasised that elections must be held to transfer the government to the elected officials, and he criticised those who are putting the country’s future at risk.
پاکستان میں PDM حکومت کو دوام دینے کیلئے معاشی ایمرجنسی لگانے کی گفتگو ہو رہی ہے،ایسا ہوا اس کے شدید سیکیورٹی اثرات مرتب ہوں گے ہماراایٹمی پروگرام دشمنوں کے پروپیگنڈے کا مرکز ہو گا اور ہماری آزادی محض رسمی ہو گی،
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) February 11, 2023
Pakistan is facing a multidimensional crisis. The economy is teetering on collapse due to a political crisis, the rupee plummeting and inflation at decades-high levels, devastating floods, and a significant shortage of energy.
Despite concerns raised by Chaudhry, as well as his opposition party in the past, the government in December of last year ruled out the possibility of imposing an economic emergency.
“A false message on supposed economic emergency proposals has been circulating on social media in recent days. Finance Division not only strongly rebuts the assertions made in the said message but also categorically denies it and that there is no planning to impose economic emergency,” the finance ministry had said in a statement.
