In a highly-anticipated meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Thursday, the PPP leadership called on the electoral watchdog to hold general elections at the earliest, if not within the 90-day constitutional limit.
The two parties made the announcement after a JUI-F delegation led by Molana Rashid Mehmood Soomro held a meeting with the MQM-P Rabita Committee at their temporary headquarters in Karachi's Bahadurabad.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said a level-playing field is not available to all the political parties in the country. He claimed that political leaders do not have equal opportunities to contest the upcoming general elections, The News International report
In the statement, the electoral watchdog said the purpose of reducing the duration of the delimitation process is to ensure polls are held at an earliest.
The Election Commission of Pakistan may announce schedule for the polls ahead of the competition of delimitation of constituencies of national and provincial assemblies.
In an order issued on Sunday, the party's secretary general Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari directed workers to protest at the city union council and tehsil levels.
Contrary to several claims that Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif made about his brother Nawaz Sharif coming back to the country in October, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leader Khursheed Shah said he doesn’t think Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo will return
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) demanded that their party wants Pakistan's general elections be conducted within 90 days, emphasizing that the country will suffer from a constitutional crisis if polls exceed the three-month period, reported Geo News.
PPP spokesperson Faisal Karim Kundi termed the incident “unfortunate” and called Alvi an unfit person for the president's post claiming that he did not know what was happening around him.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, both, refused the reports and said that the candidate for the interim prime minister has not been decided yet.