General elections will be held only after electoral reforms: Asif Ali Zardari

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has said that we are not afraid of elections but our game pla...

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has said that we are not afraid of elections but our game plan has electoral and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reforms, after which elections will take place.

 

Addressing a press conference in Karachi, former President Asif Ali Zardari said that till today I have been saying that elections should be held. If these elections were rigged then no one believed and no one listened. Did not hear

 

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He said that when I was elected we have formed the government with the help of political forces but for that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) did not give us a single vote to become the Prime Minister.

He said that now they want elections, so when did we say that we are afraid of elections, our game plan includes electoral and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reforms, all these reforms have to be done to improve the economic situation.

The former president said that in the current situation of the economy, I do not want to use the negative term that people do not even want to give you money and your stock exchange has stood.

He said that the stock exchange was around 26,000 from 9,000 in the time of Pervez Musharraf when we left, his election slogan is, what will it do with the election, what he did in the first 4 years.

'The economy has to recover'

Asif Ali Zardari said that after consultation with Mian Nawaz Sharif, I am talking that as our reforms are completed, for example, if oil is expensive at the moment, where will we get cheap oil, we will have to negotiate, Saudi Arabia first 70 million barrels 70. What the dollar promises, is getting or should get.

"The prime minister has good relations and he will talk to him and as far as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned, we have problems if the program does not come, we do not want to increase the price of oil because a As the price of oil rises, so does the price of oil, eggs and tomatoes.

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Criticizing him without mentioning the name of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said that he used to say that he did not come for the price of tomatoes and potatoes but I came for the price of tomatoes and potatoes. Will burn

"I have a lot of out-of-the-box suggestions, you have state life insurance, you have over 100 billion at the moment, give 26% of it to a business with a good record, market," he said. At 26% you will get at least 8, 10 billion.

He said that power lines also need to be privatized, to take these lines to private sector in Sindh and Punjab, Pakistani businessmen sit with us, I want to take their suggestions and I also want to give my suggestions but the solution is out. Getting out of the box, as the economists do in their box, then the economy was small and the population was small.

He said that even in 50,000 today the citizen is suffering because electricity is expensive which cannot be tolerated, we have to give a program, we have to generate solar power in all Sindh and Pakistan, do not go to power plants but individually. But give soft loans and apply them to lands, pumps and houses too, from where the remaining electricity is given to the industrial sector but in a way so that the electricity is not so expensive and its products are inaccessible.

"For such a system, I have not spared a single party in parliament that has not sat with us," he said. 

'They have big money'

Criticizing the former prime minister, he said: "It's just a lie. When he stands up, the Anglican Priest is widely followed in the United States and around the world. He has great wealth and money. Big money is coming and people are becoming fools.

He said that they create a personality, create cult and then use it but they will not be able to do that in Pakistan. People living outside Pakistan have been misled because they They do not live here, so they do not know the conditions and inflation here.

Referring to Pakistanis abroad, he said that he did not know that I was coming from Garhi Khudabakhsh where it was 52 degrees, I was in Nawabshah for three days where it was 48 but 58, so it is a practical fact. ۔

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He said that no one in the world who is as good and sympathetic to us can find a solution for us, we have to make it ourselves, we have to make it from Pakistan.
'First non-political army'

Asif Ali Zardari said that for the first time if the army is apolitical then I should salute Bajwa or fight him why you have become apolitical.

"They did not tell me or anyone else to go and vote for Zardari or Shahbaz Sharif. They became apolitical because we will not interfere, because they have taken a constitutional oath," he said. And they have been on it.

"Even if they are on oath, they are wrong and if they are not, they are wrong. It will not work. Thankfully, this exercise has shown that they can be neutral and non-political and we will continue to try to keep them that way," he said. ۔

The former president said that if there are any problems of the people and the nation then we are its public representatives, people have voted so that I can tell and see their problems in the world.

Asked if he would also salute Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, the head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Asif Ali Zardari replied, "Faiz Hameed is a poor standing line."

Later, Asif Ali Zardari said in an explanatory statement that "these words were uttered unknowingly".

'Water problem'

He said that there is also a problem of water, Nawabshah was crying seeing his own and the poor's crops, some glaciers have melted and water is coming, we will not tell people not to go for Umrah, we have a meeting. To do, but will employ friends.

"People are singing on TV that fresh elections should be held, whoever comes has to solve these problems, then let us do it, then let us go to the polls, then we will see," he said.

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Talking about the elections, he said, "Let us make a law. The whole dispute is over the law, on which it can be selected or someone else can be selected. We have to change the law and go for elections after improvement." It takes 3 months or 4 months, no problem.

'Give seats to Pakistanis abroad'

Asif Zardari said that we have to implement our policy for the betterment of electoral laws, like Pakistanis living abroad, there is no problem in this, we will reserve a certain number of seats for them, depending on the vote of each party. The ratio will be so many seats.

He said that they should give the party in Saudi Arabia, London, Texas wherever there is majority of Pakistanis, if there is more in UK then give it there.

He said that it is not a big issue as it has been made, they politicize everything and it leads to negative politics, therefore it is not a right issue, if we take wrong path we will reach wrong destination.

'I did not campaign against judges'

PPP co-chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani was expelled but I did not campaign against the judges. Musharraf had also kept me in jail for five years. We used to call him a dictator but we kept him in his house. He did not go and shake.

He said, "I want to see Musharraf alive so that he can see what is wrong. By hurting or killing someone, Allah also asks him who goes."

He said that our workers used to tell Zia that it would be shattered but I did not understand how it could be shattered.

Asif Zardari said that let the institutions do their work, let every institution do its work, help them, the bureaucracy has been destroyed, relations with the countries of the world do not exist, they have lost confidence in us but the situation It has to be improved.

He said that we have to make all the decisions together with all the friends and we will handle the situation, we will compete, in democracy there are victories and defeats, this is not a problem, there is no fear of opposition politics. Is.

'Which is the Nawab of Bengal?'

He said that in the matter of country, nation and international relations we should be very clear, which is the Nawab of Bengal with whom Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq became.

Asif Zardari said that what is the point of yesterday's cricketer who is giving medals of Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq to the people, he was the Nawab of Bengal, which included the region of Bihar.

He said that it has nothing to do with today situation, because I am not, so there should be no one. According to me, the population of Pakistan is 300 million, in this we have to build Pakistan and take care of our future generations. ۔

He said that the misguided friends said he went to Dubai, I went to see my child, they did not say I did not tell anyone to go, I did not apply in court that I want to go, I went when My name was removed from ECL and returned in three days.

The former president said that if anyone can run Pakistan then they are us, they cannot run it Done

'Threatening letter is fiction'

Asked about the letter from the former Pakistani ambassador to the US, Asif Ali Zardari said, "I have not read the letter. I do not think that any State Department official can be as irresponsible as is being reported."

He said that diplomatic language is not like that, I have led the no-confidence motion, I have not received a single phone call from there, I have very old acquaintances in Washington, someone would have called.

"It's not something they've made, it's a political myth they're making, the United States has a war with Russia, they have their own economy, the dollar is depreciating," he said. Yes, their liver is not the pain of the whole world.

The former president said that we have to fix our pain and fix our policies, we have to be a free and safe country and a safe place in the world.

"I know Biden, he a friend of mine. If that happened then at least he would call me and say, 'You've done a good job. I haven't gotten a call. ۔

He said that some people are against America, there has been war on our border for 40 years, so our people have a problem, if their position is correct then the other side will also be true, we did not get any package of 10 billion. Is.