The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) declared on Thursday that a nationwide protest movement would begin on Friday in an effort to pressure the coalition government into holding early elections.

Since the fall of former prime minister Imran Khan in April, the PTI has called for quick elections numerous times, insisting that "early polls" are the only way to end the nation's ongoing turmoil. The PTI also refuses to return to the National Assembly.

However, the government has disallowed holding early voting and informed the PTI that the elections cannot be place before October due to the existing circumstances, which include floods, the census, and fresh delimitation.

Next the party's high-level meeting with Khan as the chair, PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry warned journalists in Lahore that nationwide protests will begin the following day over soaring inflation, a failing economy, and a gas scarcity.

First, according to Fawad, the protests will be led for three weeks by PTI representatives in the national and provincial legislatures.

The PTI leader urged the country to work with the party, saying that Imran Khan will join the campaign in three weeks and that the process would continue until this government was overthrown.

Following the long march's cancellation in Rawalpindi in November and the declaration of plans to dissolve the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, which have not yet been carried out, the PTI head has now vowed a return to the streets.

The dissolution of the KP Assembly has been linked to that of Punjab, whose attempts to dissolve its legislature were thwarted last week when the Lahore High Court reinstalled Parvez Elahi as chief minister and commanded him not to do so.

confidence vote

According to Fawad, PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) are now considering the vote of confidence despite having a majority of 190 legislators in the Punjab Assembly.

The 177 members of the Punjab Assembly are in communication with us, and we will try to get CM Elahi to take a vote of confidence before January 11," the former minister of information added.

As part of "a plot," he also accused Punjab Governor Baligh-ur-Rehman of denotifying Elahi as chief minister. The governor and chief secretary will be required to appear before the assembly and defend their decisions

The chief secretary then issued a notice for the dissolution of the government after the governor de-notified Elahi as the chief minister; however, the LHC halted the notifications.

Fawad criticised the opposition for allegedly engaging in horse dealing and asserted that it was the PTI's right to either keep the Punjab government in place or dissolve it.