Elections should be held across country at the same time: Rana Sanaullah

As the date of holding polls is well in demand, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has asserted that the general elections should be held across the country at the same time.

Addressing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers’ convention in Rawalpindi on Sunday, the security czar said his “party is fully prepared” for the elections. He added that they were not afraid of the elections.

Sanaullah’s remarks came hours after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) excused itself from holding consultations with President Arif Alvi on elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the time being, saying that the matter is already under judicial consideration.

 It is pertinent to mention here that the president on Friday summoned the election commissioner for an “urgent meeting” on Monday (tomorrow) to hold a consultation on the date of the poll, lambasting him over ECP’s “poignant approach” regarding the general elections date.

A day earlier, the interior minister also censured the president, asking him to respect his constitutional stature as he had nothing to do with the date for elections.

Firing a fresh salvo at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan over his “Jail Bharo Tehreek” (court arrest movement), Sanaullah said that the government’s response would be “far beyond his imagination.

According to the interior minister, Khan’s agenda is to push the country towards chaos and anarchy.

“Khan launched the court arrest campaign but on the other hand he hid in a bunker,” the interior minister took a jibe at the PTI leader who has been residing at his Zaman Park house in Lahore.

He also said, “Political workers would not be kept in jails. Only those people would be imprisoned who wanted to create anarchy and disorder in the country.”