‘Interim govt will fulfil responsibility’

Says caretaker government would fulfil its responsibilities to hold general election

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Syed Ali Zafar on Friday said the caretaker government would fulfil its responsibilities to hold fair, transparent, impartial and timely general election, and preparations in that connection were completed to a large extent. He said the caretaker government during its two months tenure would leave guidelines for the next government about the existing challenges in different sectors. The minister said it was their obligation to assist the Election Commission in holding fair and transparent elections so that a newly elected government was formed in time. Besides running the day-to-day affairs, sometimes decisions of urgent nature had to be taken, but the government would not take any decision which restrained the next government or stopped it from changing decisions, he added. He said preparations had been almost finalized for the upcoming elections and a lot of work had been done in that regard and decisions were being taken on a daily basis. For fair and transparent elections, changes had been made in bureaucracy at the federal and provincial levels.  

Published in The Express Tribune, June 23^rd, 2018.