ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal Tuesday said Senate and general elections will be held on time and Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) will continue its mass contact campaign to mobilise its supporters.
Talking to media after a high level consultative meeting of PML-N here, he said the leadership reviewed the political situation in the country and held discussion on the upcoming Senate elections.
The meeting was chaired by President PML-N Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
Ahsan said the democratic process was becoming strong in the country and democracy was taking roots despite all hurdles.
In the last 70 years, for the second time a democratically elected government will complete its tenure, he said adding the completion of tenure of a democratic government will send a positive message to the outside world.
The minister said the party’s leadership expressed satisfaction over the public response in the meetings recently addressed by Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
Senator Mushahidullah Khan said PML-N would fully participate in the Senate elections.
He said every conspiracy against democracy would be exposed, adding Pakistan People's Party would not win a single seat of Senate from Punjab.
Nobody would be allowed to indulge in horse trading in the Senate elections, he stressed.
Mushahidullah said that the lawyer of Nawaz Sharif would appear in the Supreme Court during the hearing of the case about ineligibility of candidates of National Assembly.
He said the PML-N leadership also held discussion on the future political strategy and the government’s performance.
According to the party, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif will speed up his public contact campaign and will hold meetings in Peshawar, Chitral and undertake a visit to Karachi to meet with the party’s provincial leadership in the coming days.
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