The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his cabinet step down due to their failure to resolve the ongoing fuel crisis in the country.
“The prime minister and his cabinet should resign and there should be fresh elections,” PTI Information Secretary Dr Shireen Mazari said at a press conference, adding that no one from the government had taken responsibility for the crisis.
“The minister [of petroleum] should have resigned, or the PM should have fired him,” she added.
“This is a ghost government,” Mazari said.
“The prime minister and federal ministers are enjoying perks and privileges, and are not doing anything else.”
She expressed concern over an electricity crisis, which she believed was in the making. “There will be no electricity in the coming days as furnace oil reserves are running empty,” she added.
Mazari said the incumbent government had abdicated its authority during the last few months, therefore, should no longer remain in power.
“The government has done nothing regarding the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), except conducting meetings while the army has played its role,” she added.