Federal Minister Mian Javed Latif stated on Monday in Lahore that the PML-N would neither accept nor permit a general election without Nawaz Sharif in 2023.
He claimed that attempts were being made to keep Imran Khan out and Nawaz Sharif from the election while speaking at a press conference held here at the PID Regional Office. He said that it would be unfair and go against the idea of a level playing field to exclude the principal figurehead of a major political party from the electoral process. According to Javed Latif, the PML-N has never shied away from elections and believes that political dialogue is the best way to resolve conflicts. It would not, however, engage in dialogue with those who declared others who acted in concert with Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq to oppose.
“Whenever we held negotiations, we did it on the basis of democracy,” he said and added that ‘Panchayats’ were never held in courts, as the courts were supposed to decide matters/ disputes as per provisions of the Constitution. He said any ‘Panchayat’, held at the will of one person, would not be successful. “We have to stand more strongly for supremacy of the Parliament and the Constitution,” he vowed.
The federal minister said that when two main political parties had signed the Charter of Democracy, the powerful circles assumed it an alliance against them, and then they launched a project in politics. However, that project proved to be an utter failure. He said that Imran Khan had connived with influential people, sitting in the institutions, to stay in power for the next 10 to 15 years. That was why, such people sitting in the institutions were playing the role of facilitators to bring Imran Khan back to power. Instead of accepting failure of that project, it was being covered up and facilitation was being done not only to bring Imran Khan back but also to carve out their determined part. The revelations coming out in the form of audio-leaks of judges, generals, bureaucrats and others were proving the fact that the vested interests were hand in glove for the plot against the nation, he added.
He said that it was beyond one’s comprehension that an operation in ‘Kacha Area’ proves successful despite use of rockets and heavy gunfire by criminals, but it fails against those using petrol bombs and slingshots in Zaman Park or at Zahoor Elahi Road. If Imran Khan was being protected for his crimes, then confession should also come out, he said, asserting that in was in the national interest that those should be exposed who were sitting in institutions and helping Imran Khan to stage a comeback.
Mian Javed Latif said that now the situation had reached a point where complete truth would have to be brought forth. Now people sitting in institutions would have to speak the truth that the attempts to build Imran Khan as a leader caused sufferings to the people and great losses to the country, he added.
