Prime Minister’s Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan has said Imran Khan is committed to grant the right of vote to the overseas Pakistanis and termed formula presented by opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif as a fraud.
Addressing a joint press conference with Minister for State on Information and broadcasting Farrukh Habib in Islamabad today Monday, he said that the right to vote is a basic right of the Diaspora. Prime Minister Imran Khan and his coalition partners believe in supremacy of constitution and rule of law.
Babar Awan said Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif wants to deprive overseas Pakistanis of their right to cast votes. He said after electoral reforms judicial reforms are government’s top priority.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for State on Information Farrukh Habib said Opposition has no interest in holding transparent elections and electoral reforms. Shehbaz Sharif has no moral grounds to be Opposition Leader of the National Assembly.
It merits mention that Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday presented a new formula for representation of overseas Pakistanis in the Parliament. According to Shehbaz Sharif, 5 to 7 seats should be reserved in National Assembly and two seats in the Senate for the overseas Pakistanis and political parties in the parliament will decide procedure and conditions for allocation of these seats.
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