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PML-N acting president to be elected in 7 days: Ahsan Iqbal

LAHORE: Interior, Planning, Development and Reforms Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) acting party president will be elected within seven days, while a permanent president will be chosen in the next 45 days.

He said that the Central Working Committee (CWC) of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was authorized to elect a party president in the wake of the apex court’s verdict.

Talking to the media during an international conference at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), he said that NAB was apparently not doing its job.

He stressed on the fact that there should not be any kind of confrontation among the institutions. To a query, the interior minister replied that the country faced internal and external threats, and enemies of the country were wary of its economic progress, adding that everyone had united to disrupt peace in the country.

About electing Shehbaz Sharif as party president, he said that as per party constitution, the CWC of the PML-N will elect a party president within seven days while a permanent president will be chosen in the next 45 days.

Replying to a query, he said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is the soul and spirit of the party and would always be a guiding star for the party.

To another query, Ahsan said that PML-N was not a drawing room party, adding it had roots and popular votes from Karachi to Gilgit Baltistan (GB).

Earlier, addressing the International Conference on ‘Role of Tasawwuf in the Promotion of Peace and Harmony’, the interior minister had said that self-confidence was a pre-requisite to progress and freedom, adding that people with a negative mindset become victims of despondency and hopelessness.

Ahsan Iqbal said that change was already conspicuous in the country. “Pakistan is an emerging economy today,” he stated.

“The change is visible as the load-shedding has been reduced to a minimum, terrorism has been exterminated, and the economic index had risen to 6 percent in 2018, while Pakistan stands fifth among the fastest growing economies of the world,” he said.

He said that people had to bear the trauma of 20-23-hour long load-shedding in 2013, while dozens lost their lives daily in the face of terrorism during the past regimes.

About PML-N government’s initiatives in different sectors, Ahsan said that the government had increased the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) budget to Rs 35 billion from a meagre Rs 13 billion and that all this was achieved through indigenous resources for which the government never begged the US.

He further added that sports activities in the country’s playgrounds were restored as a rising Pakistan was the vision of PML-N.

Addressing the students, Ahsan concluded by saying that a person should not lose heart in the face of failures, as one achieves success after failures.

He urged the students to work hard, acquire knowledge, and contribute to peace and harmony in the society.

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