Demanding snap polls in the country, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday said the upcoming meeting of PTI’s central executive committee will decide on whether to launch a civil disobedience movement. Addressing a press conference, Imran said, “Holding general elections before time will strengthen democracy in the country in a scenario when an elected government has lost the mandate to rule.” He said the political parties that took part in 2008 general elections had produced the crises in the country. Terming the incumbent government as most corrupt in country’s history, Imran said the ruling government had forced people onto the streets to demand their rights. “Time has proven the decision to take part in 2008 elections harmed democracy in the country to such an extent that today people are recalling the days of the military dictator,” he said. Speaking about alleged corruption in state-owned entities including PIA, Steel Mills, Railways, and energy sector, Imran said the price of the corruption of a few was being paid by people in shape of inflated bills and unprecedented gas and electricity outages. He said as many as four million labours working on daily wages basis had been unemployed due to the closure of 1000 factory units in Lahore and Faisalabad, owing to shortage of gas and electricity. He said gas theft had also increased by four percent.
