ISLAMABAD: Reacting strongly to “what its dubs” organized attempts to unconstitutionally and unlawfully postpone the long-awaited general elections scheduled for February 8, 2023, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday demanded Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to utilize energies for free, fair and transparent conduct of elections instead of wasting time on petitions seeking polls delay.
A spokesperson for the PTI said that those, who were creating obstacles in the conduct of the elections, were the worst enemies of the country’s interest, constitution, people right to vote and democracy.
He noted that it was a shameful and dangerous plan to deprive Pakistan of its constitution and plunge the country into political instability, saying the PTI outright rejected the organized efforts to postpone the elections.
The PTI spokesman contended that the four provincial and central caretaker governments in the country were completely unconstitutional and illegal, whereas there was absolutely no scope for unelected and caretaker governments in the constitution after the expiry of their constitutional timeframe.
He pointed out that the Supreme Court clearly determined the intent of the constitution pertaining to holding of elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies and in the petition seeking conducting elections within the stipulated constitutional period of ninety days.
The PTI spokesperson further made it clear that the country and the nation had been suffering the consequences of the worst deviation from the constitution in the form of economic catastrophe.
He reiterated that the solution to the prevailing untold crises imbibed in giving a decisive status to the people’s vote and holding free and fair elections in the country.
