ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday said that general elections will not be held as per the demands of PTI Chairman Imran Khan but the country will go to polls at its designated time in 2023. Speaking to a private TV channel, the defence minister maintained that Khan’s strategy was all about ‘destroying the establishment’, adding that since the no-confidence motion to oust him from power has become successful, he ‘wants the establishment to support him’.
Asif went on to say that the general elections in the country will not be held as per Khan’s demands but at the scheduled time, i.e. in 2023. Speaking about the matter of Khan’s arrest, the defence minister said that it was a legal matter, therefore, all cases should be conducted in accordance with the law. The minister also said that today, the entire world, as well as the Pakistani judiciary, is acknowledging that Nawaz Sharif was subjected to “unjust treatment.”