Sunday, November 9, 2014

Pakistan: PPP anticipates ‘young’, ‘assertive’ CEC

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/
PPP Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo has said that the PPP-led government appointed an independent chief election commissioner (CEC) after consultations with the opposition during its tenure from 2008 to 2013 but that the CEC could not assert. Besides, he said, the role of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan also became “controversial,” casting aspersions on the whole electoral process of 2013.
Wattoo expressed these views while talking to the press after Qurban Khan Niazi, the younger brother of the late Dr Sher Afgan Nizai, joined the PPP on Saturday.
He said that Opposition Leader Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah was engaged in consultations with other opposition parties, hoping that this time a comparatively “young” and “assertive” CEC would be appointed and nobody would be able to raise finger on the authenticity and credibility of the elections conducted by him.

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