Islamabad:
In a press conference in Islamabad, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry along with Federal Minister for Railways Azam Swati and Advisor to the Prime Minister Babar Awan said that Chief Election Commissioner Nawaz Sharif was in close touch with him. There is no trust, so how will they hold elections?
He said that Sikandar Sultan Raja has become the mouthpiece of the opposition, he should reconsider his attitude, not become a tool of small parties but the head of the institution, the Election Commission raised stupid objections on EVM and then politics on it. He said that the attitude of the Election Commission in the Senate Committee was tantamount to denying the prerogatives of the Parliament. The Election Commission has a strange logic that the Parliament cannot guide them on how to conduct the elections.
According to Fawad Chaudhry, unfortunately our opposition is made up of mental dwarfs, their ability to think beyond their own cases, all the leadership of the opposition has only one skill that is how to make history in cases, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi & The company is working to make the legal amendment to the use of electronic voting machines controversial.
The Information Minister said that all institutions including the Election Commission have to abide by the constitution. The Supreme Court also said that no one in Pakistan is satisfied with the election results if technology is used. We want to use technology for transparent elections. The ability of the opposition is not to think beyond their own cases, these people are mental dwarfs and they are exposing each other, goodness cannot be expected from these people, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has exposed all the rumors of the opposition.
Adviser Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan said that we will present the bill for electronic voting machine and internet voting rights for overseas Pakistanis in the joint sitting of the parliament. This is the first time that the Election Commission members have walked out. They had presented the Election Bill in October last year. The Election Commission members had to ask questions. The commission does not want fair and transparent elections through EVMs, the commission is fully aligned with the opposition, and has come before us as a party. He said that the Election Commission has taken money for holding rigged elections, the Election Commission has always failed to hold free and fair elections in the country and that is why it is opposing the electronic voting machine. On this occasion, for the first time in the history of the country, elections were held Yashan officials walked out of the meeting in protest against the government.
Committee member Senator Azam Tarar said that the government’s remarks about the Election Commission were insulting. Senator Farooq H Naik, a member of the committee, said that if the performance of the Election Commission is not right, then its constitutional status should be abolished. Adviser to Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan said that it was not right for the Election Commission to express reservations about the electronic voting machine. The claim is also baseless, voting by machine will eliminate the problems of ballot papers and increase transparency. He said that testing of electronic voting machines on an experimental basis was also the responsibility of the Election Commission, as well as expenditure of Rs. 150 billion on the purchase of machines is also assumed. On the other hand, according to private TV Geo News, the Chief Election Commissioner has expressed strong anger over the allegations made by Federal Minister for Railways Azam Swati. Special Secretary Zafar Iqbal informed the Chief Election Commissioner about the incident in the Standing Committee. Raja has convened a special meeting of the Election Commission on the issue on Monday in which all the members have been directed to participate. Sources said that the Chief Election Commissioner directed the DG Law to give a briefing on legal options. Has gone
