PESHAWAR: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has asserted that the opposition’s stance against open balloting in the Senate election was illogical and beyond comprehension.
Talking to journalists in Peshawar after submitting his nomination papers for the Senate election, he said that the government was striving to devise an inclusive mechanism so that no one could dare to raise finger on the credibility of elections results in the future.
The information minister said that free, fair and transparent elections provided the moral ground to flourish democracy and strengthen democratic institutions. “The government’s electoral reforms would help ensure transparency of elections,” he added.
Shibli Faraz further said instead of supporting the government’s efforts to introduce electoral reforms, the opposition was creating a hurdle by opposing open balloting in the senate election.
He said opposition parties including PPP and PML-N who ruled the country for 10 years had completely failed to prepare any mechanism for electoral reforms. “Opposition is still working against electoral reforms that were aimed to eliminate chances of corruption,” he added.
“I ask a question how a political party having representation of few members in the parliament or a provincial assembly will secure a seat in senate election,” he said, adding opposition did not take lesson from the past and would try to purchase political loyalties in a bid to get representation in the upper house.
