The Pakistani community living in the Kingdom has expressed deep anguish and unhappiness at the prolonged political disturbance in the country staged by the fiery cleric Tahirul Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.

Expressing their anxiety over demonstrations led by the two leaders asking Premier Nawaz Sharif to resign, the expatriate workers asserted on Friday that the ill-timed political attack is an attempt to pull down a democratically elected government.

Questioning Khan’s intention and that of his supporters, Badar Muneer, a hospital administrator here asked why they had only resigned from the National and Punjab provincial assemblies to lodge their protest and not resigned from the Khyber assembly too where they are in power. “But they have not done so, which exposes their struggle for power,” Muneer underlined.

“It is not the time to deliberate on certain agendas but to unite to remain a democratic, moderate and progressive country governed by the rule of law,” he said.

Commenting on the development, Mohammad Naeem, a management graduate working in Al-Kharj maintained: “In such a fragile situation marked by grim irony in terms of the economical, political and technological drain on our resources, we cannot afford to face the challenge of destructive politics..this will only ruin our national economy.”

Ghaffar Ali, a businessman urged his countrymen and women to shun all political differences in the national interest to re-define the story of development by working diligently for a prosperous and peaceful Pakistan rather than flooding the streets to do negative politics.