00:00 So viewers, this issue of raising shoulders, moving forward...
00:04 This is a misbehaviour.
00:05 Yes, today...
00:06 Brother, this is a misbehaviour.
00:07 Okay, today Senator Raza Rabbani is a senior leader of the Pakistan People's Party, his
00:13 father was a member of the ADC, so this is a very big legacy of his.
00:19 In the People's Party, he has always been at the forefront of democratic attitudes,
00:24 he has always said that we have to live with the constitution.
00:28 Today he has written a letter, he has addressed the Election Commission, he has written a letter
00:34 from the letterhead of the Senate, there is a letter in English, I will put its Urdu
00:38 translation in front of you.
00:39 The National Assembly has been analyzed, now 6 days have passed.
00:42 Under Article 224, the time is ticking to hold general elections on the 9th day.
00:49 It is surprising that the Election Commission has not issued any statement regarding the
00:54 general elections.
00:55 The Election Commission should not take this issue as a normal matter, nor should it take
01:01 the matter of the Punjab and KPK assemblies as an example.
01:05 Within the period, there will be serious consequences for the loyalty of any delay.
01:10 It is a very important matter that the federation can be in danger if you do not take the time
01:16 to take the matter seriously.
01:18 Mr. Zahid Mishwani is our reporter, he does reporting on the Election Commission.
01:25 Thank you very much, Mr. Zahid.
01:28 Today we saw that the Election Commission has issued a code of conduct, in which it
01:34 has told the governing governments that what you can and cannot do as a governing government.
01:40 The ordinary matters are not allowed to be discussed.
01:43 So, why is the Election Commission silent?
01:48 6 days have passed.
01:50 Could you please give a statement that since the general elections have been notified,
01:57 we have to see and calculate the logistics of how long this matter can be delimited.
02:04 Why are they not able to fix the time?
02:07 The Election Commission was waiting for the digital census to be approved.
02:14 This was the reason why the Election Commission was silent.
02:19 The work of the governments is that when the census and the Gazette notification were
02:25 approved, the Election Commission started holding meetings on a daily basis.
02:30 An important meeting was held yesterday at the Election Commission.
02:34 The Election Commission has issued a notification that an important meeting has been held at
02:41 11 o'clock yesterday.
02:43 The Chief Election Commissioner, members, special secretaries, other officials and the
02:48 legal team of the Election Commission were called yesterday.
02:52 The legal team of the Election Commission has advised the Election Commission to start
02:58 the process as soon as possible.
03:01 Please give a statement on this.
03:04 Mr. Chaudhary, I have a question for you.
03:08 I am an Election Commissioner and I have decades of experience.
03:13 I know that the government is denotifying the census.
03:18 We all knew about this.
03:20 The question that is being asked from all sides, as Mr. Raza Rabbani has said, no one
03:26 is asking to give a timeline.
03:31 They are asking to give a timeline as to how long it is expected.
03:35 What is the point of giving a timeline?
03:38 The Election Commission has not given a timeline but it is possible that in the next two or
03:45 three days, the census will be scheduled and after the schedule is issued, the census
03:53 will be conducted according to the timeline.
03:58 Mr. Chaudhary, you also want to ask a question?
04:01 Mr. Raza Rabbani, please forgive me.
04:04 The fundamental question that every Pakistani wants to ask is that the Election Commission
04:11 should have kept its credibility, its trust in the people at the lowest level.
04:22 No one is trusting that the Election Commission will conduct elections and they will be free
04:29 and impartial and the market will not be hot.
04:34 They will have to roll up their sleeves to regain their credibility.
04:39 Secondly, the way the partisans are being used by the police and the authorities to commit
04:54 crimes of corruption worth crores of rupees and all this is happening because of the Election
05:02 Commission because they give formal approval.
05:06 Is the Election Commission interested in considering the public opinion that has been
05:12 formed against them or is it their reputation and they will work on it?
05:22 The work of the Election Commission, their election act, is done in that area.
05:27 They do it in accordance with the law and the constitution.
05:32 If there is any objection to this, I agree with you in terms of the way the political
05:39 matters are handled.
05:40 It is exactly like this and the actions are also taken in this.
05:43 We have seen the political influence in the past.
05:46 The reaction of the political parties that lose the elections and those that win, their
05:51 reaction and the actual reasons for making the Election Commission controversial in the
05:56 past, all the things you are talking about, this is the basis of it.
06:00 The action of the political parties is there and for that, it was necessary for the Election
06:05 Commission to announce the political parties, notify them, and make an announcement.
06:09 Thank you very much for giving us your time.
06:12 Hassan, you are being told that the Election Commission is now free.
06:16 The government has passed the law.
06:18 It is free for a period of time.
06:20 No, no.
06:21 It is free for a period of time.
06:22 No, no.
06:23 Before that, the president used to be a member of the parliament.
06:26 The PDM government has now removed the act of being a member of the parliament.
06:29 The election commission has been given the power.
06:31 The election commission cannot be forced to keep this date.
06:36 Mr. Raza Rabbani, we want to...
06:38 He can say the constitution.
06:40 Mr. Chaudhary, he can say the constitution, but the laws that have been made under the
06:45 constitution, the government, their argument is this.
06:48 Mr. Raza Rabbani, we want to dedicate this to you that the government was a part of your
06:55 party, it made this law, now the election commission cannot be questioned.
07:00 They can define the circumstances by giving a date.
07:05 And your government has been saying that we cannot do anything.
07:09 See.
07:10 Announcing the election, making it public, is the job of the election commission and
07:15 Pakistan.
07:16 They will make it happen according to the constitution.
07:18 The election commission has to decide how the elections will be held in the country, at
07:22 what time, in what circumstances.
07:24 The election commission has to announce the election.
07:27 This is the mandate of the election commission.
07:30 The final decision is not the government's decision to hold the election or not.
07:34 This decision has to be made by the election commission.
07:36 Dear viewers, our friend Sikandar Sultan Raja is on strong shoulders because all the nations,
07:43 all the political parties are looking at him.
07:45 Now, as Mr. Raza Rabbani wrote a letter today, in the coming days you will get a letter
07:49 from the Noon League.
07:50 the video.
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