PML-N urges 'stakeholders' to put in place mechanism for country's stability.

KARACHI -- Former prime minister and senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi suggested on Thursday that the 'relevant forces and stakeholders' should decide on a mechanism to run the country as the current model 'brought two years ago' had miserably failed to deliver, driven the economy to collapse and resulted in internal instability.

The top rung of the PML-N, including Mr Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal and Marriyum Aurangzeb, arrived here with an apparent political agenda as a first high-profile visit of the party leadership to the city after the former prime minister and former federal minister were granted bail by the Islamabad High Court and released from Adiala jail last month.

Mr Abbasi sounded clear and to the point about the future strategy of his party while calling the current state of government as a 'dictatorship'. Without naming the 'forces' and 'stakeholders', he suggested the way forward amid fast-declining state of economy and social sector.

'It's a need of the hour that all the stakeholders and forces sit together and decide how this country would be run,' he told reporters after offering Fateha at the Quaid-i-Azam's mausoleum.

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'Because we believe that this model [of governance] which was brought in 2018 has failed badly. Despite our serious reservations over the 2018 controversial elections, we agreed to go with the democratic system and support the assembly. But now the situation has turned serious and we are concerned about it. The economy has collapsed, the country...