Says elections to be held in October; Conversations including decisions about country’s fate not private
Amid an impasse between the judiciary and the executive over the matter of early polls in Punjab, Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz asserted onMonday that the Supreme Court will have to accept parliament’s decision on the matter. Addressing the PML-N Labour Wing convention in Lahore in connection with International Labour Day Maryam, referring to the Supreme Court’s three-member bench hearing the Punjab polls delay case, said the nation is eagerly awaiting the top court’s verdict.
“You will have to accept the decision of the Parliament. If the Constitution of the country is supreme then parliament is also supreme,” she remarked.
Commenting on the case proceedings, Maryam said an honourable judge of the apex court raised questions over the PTI’s move to dissolve the assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She quoted the judge as saying that the reason for dissolving assemblies needed to be sorted out before deciding the case. “The senior judges of the Supreme Court raised their voice against the conspiracy,” Maryam added.
She said PTI wanted the elections in the country soon “otherwise, there will be no one to help them win the elections”. Maryam Nawaz lambasted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan and said that the elections will be held in October. “Imran Khan’s plan to dissolve assemblies has failed and elections will be held in October.” Maryam Nawaz has called on Imran Khan to have some mercy on Pakistan by abandoning conspiracies, declaring “only one man is the main hurdle in country’s progress.” Maryam said the PTI chief himself admitted that he dissolved the provincial legislatures on the advice of former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa.
