Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party senior leader and Secretary General Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Sunday advised Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) senior leadership to take all other allies parties on board as a dialogue between PM Shahbaz Sharif and PPP leadership over the matters of caretaker setup is positively continued.
“Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’ unity and consensus is need of the hour and PPP will accept all that decisions which will come after consensus”, he made it clear while talking to a private news channel.
Timely and transparent elections in the country will take the country towards stability and progress, he added.
Replying to a question, he said the coalition government had faced enormous economic challenges but succeeded in steering the country out of the crisis due to its prudent policies.
Pakistan Peoples Party always believed in democracy and has always worked for strengthening the rule of law in the country, he added.
To another question, he said there has been a good working relationship with the PML-N leaders, adding, it is the right of every political party to have a difference of opinion, adding, PML-N addressed some of the reservations but still some parties are not satisfied with the population census which will be addressed with the consultation of all parties.
Chairman Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Altaf Shakoor has said that the coming general elections should be ideally held on the basis of recent population census after adjusting constituencies as per modified demography.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said not notifying the results of recent population and housing census was a big dishonesty of the sitting government as it was the right of citizens to know the results of the census. He said why billions of the rupees from taxpayers’ money were spent on this census exercise when the rulers have no moral courage to notify its results.
Altaf Shakoor said the sitting PDM coalition government simply disappointed the citizens of Pakistan with its timidity and dishonesty regarding timely notifying of the census results. He said the census results could not be kept hidden due to the pressure of a handful of political parties in Karachi. He said no political parties of just one city should be allowed to hijack the rights of all other cities and towns of Pakistan.
