- Interior Minister Sanaullah says that Muslim League-N will win the next elections.
- PTI’s demand to dissolve the assemblies, to hold early elections was rejected.
- Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan before the election.
Amid the reluctance of the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to go to early polls, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) has started its election campaign. Is.
“We will win the elections. There will be free and transparent elections this year and the National Assembly will complete its constitutional term,” the minister said while talking to the media in Faisalabad on Sunday.
His statement has come at a time when the ruling PDM has refused to accept the decision of the Supreme Court regarding the holding of the Punjab Assembly elections on May 14 and the opposition has made a big effort to create a consensus on it. Jamaat Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is in talks. Simultaneous elections in the country.
Despite agreeing to hold elections on a single date under the caretaker setup, the government and PTI’s negotiating teams have so far failed to reach any conclusion. Consensus Submit separate reports at the time of election and to the Supreme Court.
Referring to the ongoing negotiations, the interior minister said that the federal government is not ready to hold general elections in the country even a day before the scheduled time on the demand of PTI.
“People should minus it. [from politics] Use the power of your vote. First they will treat it and then they will go to the election. if they [Imran Khan] comes to the streets,” he warned.
Sanaullah also reiterated this. Muslim League Supremo Nawaz Sharif, who has been living in self-imposed exile in London since November 2019 on medical grounds, will return home before the general elections.
He also dismissed the PTI chairman’s warning that if elections are not held within 90 days of the dissolution of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assemblies, they will stage nationwide protests.
“He threatened us in May last year as well… but on May 25 he [Imran Khan] There was no way to escape,” he said, referring to PTI’s long march on Islamabad last year that ended abruptly.
Meanwhile, the Muslim League (N) decided against entering into an electoral alliance to contest the next general elections independently and after the completion of the mandated term of the National Assembly, elections will be held strictly according to the constitution. News have learned.
The party will start its nationwide election campaign from May 28. The day is also celebrated as Yom Takbir after the government of Pakistan – led by Muslim League (N) supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif – conducted nuclear tests at Chagai in 1998.
The development came after a meeting between Nawaz and his younger brother Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in London, where he was on a visit to attend the coronation ceremony of King Charles III.