Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s scheduled return to the cash-strapped country from London will provide a healing touch to the politically polarised nation as well as offer leadership to all institutions to work in harmony, top PML-N leaders have said.
On Tuesday, the Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan on Monday said that vote was a fundamental right of Pakistanis residing anywhere in the world and the government would do utmost to make them part of the electoral process.
“The Constitution gives overseas Pakistanis the right to vote and present government is committed to facilitating them while the opposition is still trying to keep them away from voting,” he said this while speaking at a joint press conference with Minister of State on Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib here.
Dr Awan claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan and his coalition partners believed in the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law while Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif, wanted to deprive overseas Pakistanis of their right to vote.