Imran Khan to Write Letter to IMF, demands to stop support for Pakistan over “rigged elections”
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will write to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), demanding to stop its support for Pakistan due to the “rigged elections”, party leader Ali Zafar said on Thursday, media reports said. Zafar claimed that the “most important section” of their charter is that a country should be democratic. “If there’s no democracy, neither can these institutions function in such countries, nor should they,” he said, Geo News reported. “The basic pillar of democracy is free and fair elections. However, the entire world saw how the nation’s mandate was stolen. Let’s leave pre-poll rigging aside, in post-poll rigging, victory was snatched from PTI’s winning candidates,” Zafar said. Pakistan secured a short-term $3 billion programme from the IMF last year, which helped the country avert a sovereign debt default. It will run out next month and securing a new and much bigger one is widely seen as the priority for the new administration. With the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and their allies striking a deal to form a coalition government, the PTI and some other political parties have altogether rejected the elections and announced country-wide protests, Geo News reported.
