ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has desired that process of electoral reforms should be expedited to ensure transparency in future elections.
In a high-level consultative meeting with Cabinet members and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership in Islamabad on Monday, the prime minister urged the Cabinet members to highlight the findings of the Inquiry Commission over alleged rigging in 2013 polls.
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The prime minister said that the Judicial Commission has authenticated the PML-N’s mandate and the reaction of political forces on the report is to be charted out.
“It would carve out a way for stability of political and democratic system in Pakistan,” he said.
Sharif also reiterated that the PML-N government is determined to strengthen institutions and supremacy of constitution and ensure good governance in the country.
The premier directed the participants of the meeting to reach out to the public and take them in confidence about PML-N’s development-oriented vision.
“It is time to show magnanimity and political maturity by all the stakeholders of democracy so that precious time of the nation is not wasted in petty disputes,” Nawaz Sharif said.
The prime minister said that he believed in the politics of values rather than the politics of power.
“It is high time that we focus on strengthening of democratic process with the support of political leadership,” he added.
