Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that there is a need for a "competent" government in a bid to steer the country out of the economic quagmire.

Speaking to media in Lahore, Iqbal took a swipe at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), saying, "The PTI had left the country backward. The PTI did not bother about the supremacy of the parliament."

The former planning minister recalled the events that transpired on May 9. "The PTI went on to indulge in vandalism on May 9".

"The PTI wants to stage the politics of unrest," Iqbal said.

– PML-N labels PTI intra-party polls ‘selection’ –

Few days back, PML-N leader Marriyum Aurangzeb deemed the PTI intra-party polls as "selection."

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the former federal information minister said, "The practice of the biggest rigging prevails in the PTI intra-polls. This is not the election but a spectacle."

Marriyum urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take notice of the PTI intra-party polls.

She said, "When the notice is taken against the PTI, then its leader will hurl foul language at the ECP Chief Election Commissioner. How can the PTI dare to talk about the transparent polls?"

"The PTI took no time in releasing the press release following the intra-party polls," Aurangzeb said.

Recalling the events that transpired on May 9, Aurangzeb asserted, "The mastermind of the May 9 violence is the mafia. A group of mafia has nothing to do with the intra-party polls or the general elections in the country."

"The only thing the PTI wants is to spread unrest in the country," Aurangzeb said.