Sanaullah urges Imran to dissolve KP, Punjab assemblies before demanding early elections.

ISLAMABAD -- Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday urged former prime minister Imran Khan to dissolve assemblies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab - where his party is in power - saying that it was a prerequisite of his demand for general elections.

The minister made the statement at a press conference in Islamabad as he insisted that the PTI chief would 'never prefer early polls' and that 'he is making such demands only to discredit the government.'

Sanaullah said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif wanted the country to move towards elections, however, 'this man [Imran] is asking for the sacking of chief election commissioner without realising that fact that the CEC cannot be replaced without fulfillment of a required constitutional process.'

'The nomination for the current CEC was proposed by Imran when he was in the government, and now he could only be removed through the consent of judicial council,' he added.

He said the ECP chief could not be sacked on mere threats hurled by Imran.

He asked Imran to dissolve the two assemblies if he was 'sincere' in his demand for early polls.

The interior minister demanded the ECP to...

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