# Naqvi says Shehbaz Sharif will complete full term amid corruption claims 2026-08-06T06:21:20+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Pakistan's interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will serve out his full five-year term, moving to calm speculation that followed his own remark at the Pakistan Economic Summit that the country's governance system had collapsed. Naqvi said afterward that the comment referred to Pakistan's 80-year-old administrative system rather than any failure by Sharif's government. He separately said he had uncovered what he called the country's biggest corruption scandal, saying judges, bureaucrats and politicians were involved, and said prosecutions would follow. The remarks reopened debate over Pakistan's political stability and the possibility of change before elections due in 2029. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif described Naqvi as a powerhouse, while Naqvi himself said some people were trying to create a rift between him and the prime minister. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Naqvi's two statements pull against each other: an assurance that Shehbaz Sharif serves out his full five-year term, and a claim to have uncovered the country's biggest corruption scandal involving judges, bureaucrats and politicians. He also placed his own collapse remark on Pakistan's 80-year-old administrative system rather than on the prime minister, and said some people were trying to create differences between him and Shehbaz, while Defence Minister Khawaja Asif called him a powerhouse. The prosecutions Naqvi promised are what would turn the corruption claim into cases on the record, and the elections due in 2029 set the outer limit on the term he says Sharif will complete. ## Coverage - IndiaToday Tags: Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/will-pak-pm-complete-term-mohsin-naqvi-clears-air-on-system-collapse-remark/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/will-pak-pm-complete-term-mohsin-naqvi-clears-air-on-system-collapse-remark/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.