Javed Latif of PML-N on Saturday “advised” against “running election campaign” for PTI while being associated with institutions and said verdicts were issued against his party leadership in the past to please someone – in latest comments on the recent orders and comments passed by courts which allegedly represent favouritism.
Talking to reporters in Lahore, Latif said the PTI wanted to make the elections controversial and was aiming at getting a judgment which could achieve the aim.
He stressed that the polls scheduled for February 8 were vital to ensure economic stability and warned that any failure to carry out the basic democratic exercise on the given date would only worsen the situation in Pakistan.
Latif reminded the people that the PML-N didn’t enjoy a level-playing field in 2018 and no one had raised the issue back then.
“Change the Constitution, if someone says May 9 [violence] isn’t a crime,” he remarked.
He recalled that the PML-N had contested the Senate polls without party symbol – a development after the Supreme Court stripped the party candidates of their right. “Someone is being declared innocent nowadays,” Latif remarked.
On the other hand, JUI-F emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman pointed to the attempts to create an atmosphere of “judicial martial law” in the country and mentioned that the PHC judge was a close relative of a PTI candidate.
