LAHORE: Former chief minister of Punjab and PTI president Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, while commenting on the disqualification of AJK premier Sardar Tanveer Ilyas for contempt of court has said that it is now Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s turn to be disqualified on the same grounds.

Separately, Punjab Assembly Speaker Sibtain Khan has claimed that the caretaker government in the province is working beyond its mandate as it has issued transfer and posting orders of officers and resorted to victimisation of PTI workers.

Mr Elahi was talking to former provincial ministers Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, Sardar Waqas Moakal, Chaudhry Shabbir Gujjar, Chaudhry Naveed Gondal, Chaudhry Mukhtar Gondal and Asif Irfan, who called on him at his residence on Wednesday.

The PTI president said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had submitted a report to the Supreme Court that despite the court order, the federal government did not provide funds for holding the elections.

“This report is a documentary evidence of the crime committed by the government; no further proof is needed after that report,” he stressed.

Mr Elahi said the ECP report had also been submitted against the caretaker Punjab government, and interim Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi would also go to jail for not providing the required election security.

“The criminals committing contempt of court don’t deserve any pardon. These incompetent rulers want to push society towards anarchy, which the judiciary will never allow,” he added.

Mr Elahi alleged that PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif had sent Ishaq Dar to Pakistan with an “anti-national agenda” and to make the country default. Under these “incompetent” rulers, he said, there was no possibility of recovery of economy, even in the distant future.

He said poor people were dying for a sack of flour and the patients for medicines, adding that life-saving drugs were rapidly disappearing and pharmaceutical companies were shutting down because they were fed up with Ishaq Dar’s economic policies.

He said even international organisations were constantly expressing concern over the shortage of life-saving drugs in Pakistan.