Secretary General Commonwealth Kamlesh Sharma called on Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday and expressed his deep sense of gratitude on supporting his candidature for re-election as Secretary General of the Commonwealth at Perth. The Prime Minister said the Commonwealth Forum offered a valuable support to member states for nurturing and strengthening democracy.
The PM said the National Assembly had recently passed the 20th Constitutional Amendment Bill which would ensure free, fair and transparent elections within the country, as nobody would raise finger about the credibility of the electoral process in the country.
The PM asked the Secretary General to send Commonwealth Observers to monitor the forthcoming elections in the country. The PM said the empowerment of the people at the grassroots level was important for trickle down effect in the country. The PM agreed with Secretary General that the focus of our endeavours should be the women, youth and the less-privileged segments of the society who constituted major chunk of the developing countries population. The PM said that a number of legislations had been enacted in Pakistan to empower the women folk of Pakistan, adding the mechanism also existed to redress the grievances of women in the country.-PR
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