ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister Khurram Dastgir said that the court could not announce the date for election rather it is the job of the Election Commission of Pakistan to fix and announce date for the election.
He stated these remarks during a visit to Child Protection Home in Gujranwala. The federal minister distributed Eid gifts to the children there.
“If negotiations can be held on any ground, it is only on the basis that we should make the elections of October 2023 transparent and free from [every] unconstitutional interference,” he stressed.
“And before the election, we all should agree that we accept the results of the election,” he added.
“In 2018, the way the sanctity of the vote was violated and the people’s mandate stolen, it has proved to be a disastrous and toxic experience for the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) parties and the people,” he deplored.
“So, we have to learn from this experience and make sure that in 2023, a government elected by the people is formed,” he emphasised.
‘Dissolution of Punjab, KP assemblies’ conspiracy or strategy’
Meanwhile, PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui while mocking Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said was it a conspiracy on part of the former prime minister to dissolve the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or a strategy.
Siddiqui said exciting facts were coming to the fore of Khan’s statement that he dissolved the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the orders of former army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
Siddiqui while taunting Khan tweeted, “America downed my government at the behest of General Bajwa and I dissolved two provincial governments on orders of General Bajwa. Was it a conspiracy and this strategy.”
