Elections should be held simultaneously in Pakistan: Saad Rafiq

• He said separate elections will create further division.
• He said PML-N fought the elections even in the worst conditions.
• Saad Rafiq said KP and Punjab assemblies dissolved without any reason.

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafiq has said that it is his personal opinion that elections should be held simultaneously across the country because separate elections will lead to further division.

Federal Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq while talking to the media in Lahore said that the observance of the constitution is in place but elections have been postponed on different occasions in this country.

He said that the purpose of delaying the elections is not that PML-N wants to run away from the elections, while PML-N fought the elections even in the worst conditions.

He further said that no party of PDM runs away from the election because these are old parties and have contested the election many times in which they keep winning but losing but the country cannot be subjected to any more crisis.

The federal minister said, “If accept the demand of next general election than they would start demanding the removal of election commission while that institution is created under the constitution which is protected by the constitution.”

He said that this is the nature of Imran Khan, if one thing is accepted, he puts forward another demand, if another is accepted, another demand comes forward.

He said that elections should be held in the country at one time, it is not a game and the second thing is that the constitution has given the authority to the leader of the parliament that he can dissolve the assembly but it cannot be done by an individual without reason.

He said that the assemblies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab were dissolved without any reason, which is being ordered by a person who has no constitutional status and his statement in this regard is on record.

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He further said what constitutional work has Imran Khan done by dissolving the assemblies and why no one looks at the fact that two provincial assemblies were dissolved without any reason and then there is a demand to hold elections.