The prime minister in a tweet said: "Disgusting smear campaign of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf against Chief of the Army Staff Gen Asim Munir, at the behest of Imran Niazi, deserves the strongest condemnation," the prime minister said in a tweet.
"The campaign against the army chief is intolerable and a continuation of the conspiracy against the institutions," he said in a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is an 'extremist' as police and his party workers continue to clash in Lahore, The News.com reported.
PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry in a tweet said that Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar was giving statements every day to sit together and solve issues and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had also asked for talks.
Imran, who is facing several legal matters, has been eluding arrest and is currently holed up in his Zaman Park home with thousands of supporters who have engaged in several days of "pitched battles" with the police and Rangers.
Inflation, external concerns, and supply disruption are anticipated to have a significant impact on the economy in the future amid heightened recessionary risks.
"All political forces will have to sit together to take the country forward," the premier said while addressing a meeting held with a delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) at the PM House, Dawn reported.
Shehbaz Sharif's statement was contrary to over a dozen economists who believe that Pakistan faces the renewed risk of recession amid a deepening political and economic crisis and a delay in the revival of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) bailout programme.
Pakistan's former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that the list of Toshakhana gifts had revealed how the "Sharif and Zardari families looted the Toshakhana."
Shehbaz Sharif's coalition government through its indecisiveness, incompetency and lack of interest to evolve policies to pull out Pakistan of the mess, Imran Khan had created economically and geo-strategically during his government, put a cover on Imran Khan's failures and provided him oppo
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the creation of chaos on roads is part of Imran Khan's agenda which aims at "fanning the fire of instability in the country."