Pakistan will have a new PM next year, says Bilawal.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Friday that the country would have a new prime minister by next year.

Speaking to media after a meeting of the party's core committee, the PPP chairman said that elections would be held next year and as a result, a new prime minister would be elected.

"The PPP wants elections to be held," he said. "We don't want to go from one selected government to another."

Bilawal said that the chances of the prime minister going home had not decreased but on the contrary had increased.

He said that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) did not inform the Rahbar Committee about Plan B and Plan C in detail.

"The Rahbar Committee was not informed in detail about Fazl's talks with the Chaudhry brothers and the Plan B and C of the Azadi March," he said.

Bilawal said that the PPP had fulfilled its promises to Fazl. He said that by next year, a new prime minister will be in office.

"I can see with certainty that by next year Imran Khan will not be the prime minister," he said. "We will have a new prime minister next year."

In response to a question, Bilawal said that Asif...

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