No one should object to the Supreme Court’s verdict regarding rescheduling the presidential elections, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid said on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters at the National Press Club, Rashid said it would have been difficult to vote the morning after Ramadan 27, as special prayers would be held that night.
“It would have been difficult to get up early and come to vote the very next day,” he said, adding that several PPP members would also get benefit from the change of election date. He said he hoped the PPP would take part in presidential elections.
The information minister said the PML-N would not be taking part in the voting process on the no-confidence motion in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had already issued directives in this regard and the PML-N would follow his directives.
Rashid said only the masses should have the right to remove a government through the power of ballot.
He said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was being provided its due share of electricity and the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) chief had confirmed this fact. However, he said there was a need to improve power distribution system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said the government had ended the circular debt within a month, which had resulted in improvement in power generation.