Over 120m Pakistanis to exercise right of vote: Solangi

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi on Tuesday said that on February 8 over 120 million Pakistanis would cast their votes to elect public representatives of their choice to run the affairs of the state as envisaged in the Constitution.

Addressing a press conference along with Minister for Interior Dr. Gohar Ijaz, he said that last year on August 17, 2023, after oath-taking of the caretaker cabinet, he had committed in a press conference that the caretaker government would provide all possible assistance to the Election Commission of Pakistan to conduct free and fair elections, the official news agency reported.

He said that rumour-mongers’ claims that elections would not be held on one or the other pretext and the caretaker setup would linger on had proven wrong.

Solangi said that the Ministry of Information on Monday had launched an online media helpline for the convenience of local and foreign journalists during the elections.

He said that the Pakistani nation had been fighting the scourge of terrorism for decades and between 2008 and 2013 the law and order situation was not good. The 2008 elections had to be postponed for one month following the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto. He said that a few incidents of terrorism could not deter the masses who would come out to use their right of vote in a large number to elect their representatives to run the affairs of the state.