Islamabad :
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will soon visit Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to campaign for the party’s candidates. The Federal Minister said that the Prime Minister will address the public meeting, it is the right time for the Prime Minister to go there but he is not going as the Prime Minister but as the Chairman of PTI.
How can the Prime Minister be part of the election campaign in Azad Kashmir? Replying to a question, he said that if the PTI chairman would not hold a public meeting in Azad Kashmir, would we ask some media owners to go and hold a meeting? Fawad Chaudhry said that the election campaign of the party’s candidates. It is the right of the chairman of PTI to run in an independent country.
The federal minister said the prime minister had offered the opposition a meeting of the National Assembly to discuss electoral reforms. He said there were basically two parliamentary committees here, one to review the legislation and the other. It was approved by the National Assembly and is to discuss other electoral reforms.
He said that the opposition wanted the Election (Amendment) Bill 2021 which was passed by the Assembly on June 7 to be discussed again in the House.
The Information Minister said that the government has already put its 49 proposed changes in the electoral laws and system before the people and the opposition.
He announced that we are waiting for the suggestions of PPP and PML-N to take further action on it formally.
Fawad Chaudhry said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had already nominated Syed Naveed Qamar as its focal person to talk to the government on the issue of electoral reforms, while the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had given no name. Not suggested.
He said that the Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser had told him that the PML-N had not nominated any focal person for this purpose. He said that he would take up the matter with the PML-N for further progress on the issue. Is awaiting the nomination of its Central Representative.
When contacted, PML-N Information Secretary Maryam Aurangzeb said that her party had already nominated its members to include Asad Qaiser, speaker of the National Assembly, in the parliamentary committee on electoral reform. Has provided
He said in response to the recent remarks of the Information Minister that the Speaker of the National Assembly considered the Minister as an insignificant person and did not inform him.
Maryam Aurangzeb said that the bill passed by the National Assembly has now been transferred to the Senate and she will now wait for the proposals from the Upper House of Parliament. She said that when the bill returns to the National Assembly, she will be asked to reconsider it. Will have the opportunity to discuss.
