Lahore: On Thursday, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) charged that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was planning a plot to postpone the general elections scheduled for February 8. Shehbaz Sharif, the president of the PML-N, claimed in a statement on Thursday that the PTI was planning to postpone the general elections, which were supposed to take place on February 8 of next year. The PML-N president referred to the PTI’s lawsuit in the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging the appointment of district returning officers (DROs) from bureaucracy and said the plea amounted to undermining the right of people to be represented. “The High Court petition filed by the PTI is a scheme to evade the elections. Similar to cypher, PTI is planning a plot to rig the federal elections scheduled for February 8. He declared, “As usual, the PTI is acting hypocritically and with a double standard in this situation.
The former prime minister added that the PTI was openly calling for elections to be held on time while submitting court cases to delay the voting. Even during the 2018 elections, DRO responsibilities were handled by bureaucracy. The PTI then did not object to bureaucratic DROs carrying out their duties,” he added, adding that the PTI would bear responsibility if the elections scheduled for February 8, 2024 were postponed. According to Shehbaz, the PTI has taken varying positions on the cypher scandal both in the public eye and throughout the inquiry. “[…] now the PTI has adopted the same hypocrisy elections.” “A similar conspiracy related to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme” was the PTI’s doing, according to him.