Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah on Saturday proposed a four-year-long tenure for the national and provincial assemblies.
Speaking on electoral reforms, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader said he raised this issue first in 2014 that the assembly’s tenure should be four years long. The main reason behind this was to let democracy flourish in the country, he added.
Shah said that Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar had earlier agreed that the proposal for a four-year-long tenure should come into force from the next term, adding that this step would be in better interest of the government and institutions.
Shah also expressed reservations over the provisional report of the population census and said the records of the Statistics Division and the Pakistan Army should be compared. Shah said the facts would come to the forefront once the two census records are compared.
Pakistan’s total population has been recorded at 207.774 million, according to the provisional summary results of the sixth population and housing census.
The sixth Housing and Population Census began after a period of 19 years on March 15. The census was conducted in 16 districts of Punjab, eight districts of Sindh, 14 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15 districts of Balochistan, five districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and five districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.