Punjab senior minister calls for early elections to fix economy.

LAHORE -- Senior Punjab Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal has said that Pakistan is goAing through a serious ecoAnomic crisis as the country's exports, remittances and forAeign exchange reserves are at historic lows.

'Food prices are skyrocketAing. The only solution to this mismanagement is immediAate elections. Shehbaz Sharif, who stole millions of pounds from the aid of flood victims, has been badly caught in the Daily Mail London', he said in a statement on Sunday.

The minister said that the Sharif family had always been a cause of disrepute for Pakistan at the internaAtional level. 'UnfortunateAly, at present, important decisions of the country depend on the mafia and power corridors instead...

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