LAHORE: Punjab caretaker Chief Minister, Najam Sethi, called on the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, at Mansoora on Thursday and discussed matters of the next general elections.
Naib Ameer, JI, Ch. Muhammad Aslam Saleemi,deputy Secretary General, JI, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha,Amirul Azim ,Hafiz Salman Butt and other JI leaders were also present.
Later, while talking to the media men, Najam Sethi said that his first priority to conduct impartial elections in accordance with the directives of the Election Commission.
The caretaker Chief Minister said that his cabinet would be small and have only five or six people who have no political affiliation.
He further said that he would reshuffle the administration all over the province within a week, and added that he would try his best to come up to the expectations of the people of the Punjab.
Sethi said that he will also meet chairman Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf, Imran Khan on Friday and discuss the issues related to the fair and free elections.
Syed Munawar Hasan, said that the foremost duty of the caretaker Chief Minister and his cabinet was to ensure fair and transparent elections under the guidance of the Election Commission. He said that the JI would extend every possible assistance to the government if it so desired.
Munawar Hasan said that the confidence of the caretaker Chief Minister had given a hope that he would hold impartial elections.
He said if the political parties nominated only those people who fulfilled the conditions laid down under articles 62 and 63 of the constitution, and strictly observed the constitution and the law, the elections could be made meaningful.
<Center><b><i>Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2013</b></i></center>
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