PM Kakar’s big statement regarding President Alvi's Letter

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00:00 Sadr-e-Mumlaqat has tried to kill two birds with one stone?

00:03 He has tried to appease the PTI base and also tried to offend the Halkas.

00:11 Do you think so?

00:12 By writing a letter?

00:13 Look, my own view is that Sadr-e-Mumlaqat has perhaps commented on a recommendation

00:22 or has written a letter.

00:26 He has not decided.

00:30 The Constitutional body, the Election Commission of Pakistan, has reached that point and they

00:35 will decide when they should do it.

00:38 Was there a need for this recommendation?

00:40 I think they would be in a better position to answer this question.

00:46 What need do they feel?

00:48 Sir, the question is being asked to you, on the ground, in every interview, every day.

00:52 Your opinion is very important to me.

00:56 Was there a need for this recommendation?

00:57 Because you all seem very clear on what the law says or what is required.

01:01 Do you think this was just irrelevant?

01:03 Shouldn't it have been done?

01:05 Look, we are holding two officers.

01:07 The President is the Constitutional Head of the Government of Pakistan.

01:13 And he has his own position and opinion regarding the election.

01:19 He has a relationship with the political community.

01:22 He will consider all aspects and make any recommendation or decision.

01:29 My mandate is a little different.

01:31 I have to assist this whole process and I have to do it in such a transparent manner

01:37 that first, we should try not to raise our fingers.

01:40 If we do, then at least we should raise them a little.

01:43 The important members of your cabinet, the Minister of Justice, also went to meet them.

01:47 And I know that they were not summoned.

01:50 Did you send them?

01:51 Look, our position is very clear on this.

01:54 And we are repeatedly saying that conducting this process,

01:59 its execution, is the Constitutional body of the Election Commission of Pakistan.

02:03 And I hope that you would have had your position as a Nigranj set-up.

02:05 You should have been neutral.

02:07 But still, from day one, you are taking a position.

02:09 And I spoke to you about this earlier as well.

02:11 If you think that taking a position based on the law compromises neutrality,

02:21 then I will explain again.

02:23 The mandate of the Nigranj set-up or caretaker government is that,

02:28 according to the law, the function of the government should be dispensed.

02:34 If you interpret it with a particular bias,

02:40 then you can do that.

02:41 But this is what we are here for.

02:43 Mr. Prime Minister, I have come to this chamber many times.

02:45 I have interviewed many ministers.

02:47 And when I say this to you, I will bring it on record.

02:49 You might be amongst the very few who are very articulate and well-read.

02:53 So when a person like you says that the law is,

02:56 you must have read the law which says, "Subject to the Constitution."

03:00 And the word "subject to the Constitution" was brought up in the Parliamentary Committee.

03:04 So every law is subject to the eyes of Pakistan.

03:06 So I am not going to get into a legal debate here with you.

03:09 But you took a position.

03:10 That is my problem.

03:11 Why take a position?

03:12 Ideally, you should have said, "The Supreme Court should give a statement.

03:15 We are sitting here.

03:16 We will facilitate the elections when they say."

03:19 Sir, the law is subject to the Constitution.

03:26 And we believe that when a law is passed by both the houses

03:31 and it is given an assent from the President,

03:33 then no unconstitutional law can be passed through such a large forum.

03:38 If the question is unconstitutional,

03:42 then it goes to the Supreme Judiciary and there is judicial contemplation

03:48 and they reach a judicial conclusion.

03:50 We have not come across any such judicial conclusion yet.

03:55 So the law that has been passed by the Parliament and has been given an assent,

04:01 we consider it to be a constitutional law and we are talking about it in accordance with it.

04:05 And now the Pakistan Bar Council, the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Islamic Jamaat, PTI,

04:10 the President himself mentioned that this is a subjudice case.

04:13 This case is in the court.

04:15 It will be heard that justice will be sworn in.

04:17 They will probably hear this.

04:19 Whatever decision is made, will you accept it?

04:23 There are no two opinions in this, of course.

04:25 Okay.

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