PML-N leaders seek PM's resignation.

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Imran Khan resigns from his position, as they believed that the country and the PM couldn't co-exist.

Speaking to the media outside the Parliament House after the National Assembly session, former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that today petrol should have been around Rs 67 per litre. He said at a time when economy and business was suffering in the country, petroleum prices have gone beyond the buying power of the common man which will affect every sector of the country. He said the government could not grow the economy and feared that a price-hike will continue as the government has failed in tax collection and strengthening the economy.

He said a new failure has been added in the list of present government's failures after the government raised the petroleum prices. To a question, he said that the opposition party would not become part of any unconstitutional step to topple the government.

Speaking on the occasion, Khawaja Asif said that PM had been criticising the previous government for raising petroleum prices and has now done the same thing itself.

He believed that the wave would continue, the 'storm' unleashed by the government would not stem and will affect agriculture and other sectors as well. He said Imran Khan and Pakistan cannot co-exist and if he continued with is policies, the country would reach at a point of no-return.

He said the PTI leader has been using public institutions for personal satisfaction. He demanded of the Prime Minister to admit...

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