PM should voluntarily resign, says Ahsan Iqbal

ISLAMABAD: PML-N stalwart Ahsan Iqbal has fired a broadside at Prime Minister Imran Khan, urging him to tender his resignation voluntarily.

The interior minister told the Supreme Court of Pakistan during a hearing that the government had disobeyed the apex court’s orders to restore local bodies, adding that the only option was for the prime minister to tender his resignation voluntarily.

“Government has treated the Supreme Court order as an order of some section officer. This is a revolt against the court,” he said.

“The most respectable way for Imran Khan to leave is to voluntarily resign otherwise he should be prepared to face the wrath of public,” he added.

Commenting on the third wave of the coronavirus, the minister said so far, Pakistan has managed to vaccinate only 20% of its healthcare workers. He accused the government of not caring for the frontline healthcare workers in the country.

“The little cover government is able to provide to its people is owing to China that has donated a million doses of vaccine. Even now, we are waiting for a donation of 15 million vaccines from the European Union,” he noted.

“If it was the PML-N’s government, we would have vaccinated at least 20 million people by now,” he added.