F.P. Report
MARDAN: Provincial President of Awami National Party and ex-chief minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has predicted that no political party of country will get clear mandate in the up-coming general elections of Pakistan to be held in the current year.
He was talking to journalists on the occasion of a launch arranged by ANP provincial assembly lawmaker Ahmad Khan Bahadar in the honor of newly elected office-bearers of Mardan Press Club and other members.
Ameer Haider Khan Hoti expressed that keeping in view the incumbent political scenario of Pakistan, it was expected that no political party would get a clear mandate in the next polls rather there would be weak regimes at center and provincial level. He lamented over the practice of huge horse-trading in the recently held senate elections in the country. He claimed that the senate polls were held twice when their party was in power before the general elections of 2013 but nobody leveled any charges of horse-trading at that time.
He alleged that lawmakers and even ministers themselves admitted of carrying out of horse-trading in the recently held senate polls which earned a bad name for politicians. Hoti hit out at the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khakan Abbasi for his demand to bring a new chairman of senate with consensus, adding that why the PM did not take any action over open practice of horse-trading during the senate polls.
”We have to bring reforms in system of elections of both senate, national and provincial assemblies so that to stop horse-trading and other illegal practices during the elections process,” he added. He asked the election commission of Pakistan to take steps for holding of fair and transparent up-coming general elections under the supervision of an impartial acting and interim government. ” The election commission of Pakistan should also take measures for a secured atmosphere wherein leaders and workers of all political parties can freely carry out their elections campaigns,” he stressed.
To a query regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, he alleged that Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)-led central government had made false claimed about presence of western route in the project’s map. He said that there was not western route in the CPEC project that was why Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was completely deprived of its benefits. He claimed that only Punjab and Sindh provinces were benefited from the said mega project while the KP province was ignored from it.
He also blamed that the KP provincial government was busy in protest sit-ins at the time of planning of China Pakistan Economic Corridor Project. He alleged that the PTI-led provincial government failed to secure its due share in the said mega project.
