Islamabad: Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan has said Prime Minister Imran Khan is committed to grant the right of vote to the overseas Pakistanis aiming to include them in the decision making process.
Addressing a joint press conference with Minister for State on Information Farrukh Habib in Islamabad on Monday, he said that the right to vote is a fundamental right of the overseas Pakistanis.
He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and his coalition partners believe in supremacy of constitution and rule of law.
He said after electoral reforms judicial reforms are government’s top priority. He said the government believes on the supremacy of the Parliament and all legislation will be done through this platform.
Babar Awan said that Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif wants Pakistanis abroad to be deprived of their right to vote.
The opposition leader’s suggestion, which is against the decision of the Supreme Court, is insulting, he added.
Awan said Shehbaz should not look for shortcuts and should speak up in Parliament.
The government wants to do all legislation through the parliament and considers the parliament as supreme, Awan said, insisting that the doors of dialogue between the government and the opposition are open.
Awan further said that after the judgements in former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s cases, he has now reached a “dead-end”.
He said Nawaz’s bail order has expired and he will now have to surrender to the law. “He [Nawaz Sharif] has to come to Pakistan and serve his sentence. His constitutional rights do not remain,” he said.
