ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Monday night assemblies could be dissolved earlier than the scheduled date of August 13 to “facilitate” the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
“If the assemblies get dissolved on August 11 instead of August 13, the ECP will get more time to hold elections,” he said while speaking on a TV programme.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had dissolved the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in January, while the legislatures in Sindh and Balochistan, as well as, the National Assembly, are yet to be dissolved.
The TV anchorperson asked the minister whether the intention behind delaying the dissolution of the assemblies was to “facilitate the ECP or politics” so that verdicts were issued in cases against the PTI chief and Nawaz got time for the election campaign after his expected return before the polls.
Sanaullah said: “I don’t think the difference of 20 to 30 days makes much of a difference. We have been managing matters according to constitutional requirements.”
Sanaullah’s statement comes as the final 30-day countdown to the end of the current parliament’s term and the government’s tenure is set to begin this week, and the term of the National Assembly, along with the provincial assemblies of Sindh and Balochistan, is set to expire on August 12.
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