Imran Khan calls for snap elections and threatens to call out public

Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Imran Khan said in a televised speech that the government has made things worse on the political front in the country.

“If they [the coalition government] keep pushing us up against the wall, we will have no choice but to ask the public for help,” the former prime minister Imran Khan said, referring to the collapse of the economy and the suffering it has caused.

The head of the PTI, Imran Khan said that it will be hard to keep Pakistan from falling apart if its political problems keep getting worse. He then said again that new elections need to be held soon.

Imran Khan said that the country’s risk level was 5% when his party was in charge, but it went up to 9% after the no-confidence motion was filed against him. Since then, he said, the risk level has skyrocketed to more than 22%.

Imran Khan criticized the current government for how bad Pakistan’s economy is and said that the government “has no way to stop the economy from collapsing.”

“The government said that the economy would get better after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program was brought back, but today the country is facing record-high inflation,” Imran Khan said.

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Imran Khan said that the PTI was the only party that could keep the whole country together. He was talking about how popular his party was with the public.

“Those who are moving up in government know they can’t compete with the PTI in terms of popularity,” he said.

Imran Khan gave some numbers that showed how his administration did compare to the current one. He said that the government left $16.2 billion in foreign exchange reserves and that the country was facing inflation and joblessness.

Imran Khan said that Pakistan’s economy was going the same way as Sri Lanka’s and that the two countries were in the same place.

“The IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank will give Pakistan $8 billion, and other countries will have to pay for the other $22 billion,” Imran Khan said, adding that Pakistan has to pay back $30 billion in loans this year.