PML-N leader Khwaja Saad Rafiq warns that the state institutions will collapse if the country’s system is not reformed.

Speaking at an election meeting here on Sunday, the former federal minister said that if the national governance system was not reformed, the state institutions would collapse and it’s the responsibility of the new government and institutions to bring all the political players on a single platform post-Feb 8 elections for devising a joint road map for the country.

He said only those elements should be allowed to run the country who knew how to govern a state and avoid the past precedents when an elected prime minister was ousted through the judiciary under a conspiracy to put the national development into reverse gear.

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