Pakistan province calls for local assembly to be dissolved in win for former PM Khan

FILE PHOTO: Former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses a news conference after he was wounded following a shooting incident during a long march in Wazirabad, at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza//File Photo

LAHORE (Reuters) - The chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province, an ally of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has called for the local assembly to be dissolved, in a bid to force the federal government into holding snap general elections.

Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi, a coalition partner of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) political party, advised the provincial governor to dissolve the local assembly late on Thursday, according to a document seen by Reuters.