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  • Elections in Pak will solely be held after introduction of ballot reforms: Zardari

    The co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari, mentioned in a press convention on Wednesday that elections in Pakistan will solely be held after ballot reforms are launched.

    PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (File/PTI)

    The co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Zardari, has made it clear that elections within the nation will solely be held after ballot reforms are launched and the National Accountability Laws are amended.

    Zardari, a senior political chief who performed a key position within the vote of no-confidence movement moved by the opposition events final month towards former premier Imran Khan, mentioned elections can be held as soon as the incumbent coalition authorities completes each duties.

    “I have also talked to Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) on this and we agreed that we can go to polls as soon as the reforms and targets are met.

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    “We have to change laws and improve them and then go to elections. Whether it takes three or four months, we have to work on implementation of policies and improving the electoral process,” Zardari advised a press convention right here on Wednesday.

    He additionally mentioned the coalition authorities headed by Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shehbaz Sharif had no challenge with voting rights and illustration of abroad Pakistanis in elections.

    Asked about Wednesday’s assertion by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif that one couldn’t rule out the opportunity of elections earlier than November, Zardari mentioned the PML-N chief had his personal views and was certain to hearken to his occasion’s directives.

    He mentioned the PPP and the PML-N had determined that till electoral reforms have been introduced, there can be no discuss in regards to the new military chief’s appointment.

    Zardari additionally mentioned the military was “apolitical” for the primary time.

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  • PM Imran Khan, navy generals to be accountable if something occurs to Maryam: Nawaz Sharif

    Pakistan’s deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif has accused the nation’s highly effective navy institution of threatening his daughter Maryam Nawaz, warning that if something occurs to her Prime Minister Imran Khan and the three high generals could be liable for it.
    In a video message from London, the PML-N supremo mentioned that they (navy institution) have threatened to ‘smash’ Maryam if she doesn’t cease in opposition to them (the navy).
    “You have stooped so low. First you broke open the Karachi hotel room door where Maryam was staying. Now you are threatening her that if she does not stop, she will be smashed. If anything happens to her Prime Minister Imran Khan, Army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, ISI head Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed and Gen. Irfan Malik will be responsible,” 71-year-old Sharif mentioned within the video which he posted on his Twitter account on Thursday.
    Sharif has been in London since November 2019. The Khan authorities had allowed him to depart the nation after the Lahore High Court granted him bail for 4 weeks on medical grounds.

    پاکستان کے جمہوری نظام اور اخلاقیات کو  پاؤں تلے  روندتے ہوئے آپ اس حد تک گر چکے ہیں کہ پہلے آپ نے کراچی میں چادر اور چار دیواری کو پامال کیا، رات کے وقت مریم نواز کے ہوٹل کے کمرے کا دروازہ توڑا اور اب انہیں دھمکی دے رہے ہیں کہ اگر وه باز نہ آئیں تو انہیں SMASH کر دیا جائے گا۔ pic.twitter.com/TEjUS3xHI2
    — Nawaz Sharif (@NawazSharifMNS) March 11, 2021

    He was serving a seven-year imprisonment in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in Al-Azizia Mills corruption case.
    Taunting the navy for requesting politicians to not drag it in politics, Sharif mentioned: “You (generals) rigged 2018 polls to impose inept Imran Khan on the nation and after the defeat in the Senate you helped your selected (PM Khan) to get vote of confidence and it is no more a secret.”
    Addressing the generals, Sharif mentioned: “What you have done is a grave crime and you will be answerable to your deeds.”

    Meanwhile, Maryam, a senior functionary of the PML-N get together mentioned in a tweet that she had not solely been threatened however these issuing the risk had additionally used abusive language.
    Earlier, Maryam, 47, named the intelligence companies getting used to stress PML-N senators to vote for the federal government candidate within the senate chairman election being held on Friday.

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    Since September final yr Sharif had began taking up the Pakistan Army and ISI chiefs for his or her alleged interference in politics and putting in their ‘puppet’ authorities of Khan by “stealing” the 2018 polls.

    Maryam has additionally been focusing on the navy institution.