Engineered elections are weakening democracy: ex-PM Abbasi.

RAHIM YAR KHAN -- Former Prime Minister and PML-N senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that the engineered elections are actually weakening democracy by eliminating the people from their true representatives, thereby destroying the people's confidence in democracy.

While addressing a gathering on Sunday in Cholistan some 50 km from Rahim Yar Khan he said that he wanted the present government to fulfil its tenure so that such rulers could not be kept in the public forever.

He said that Maryam Nawaz will play a very vital and an important role in Pakistani politics in near future. He said that NAB was working to avenge the opposition and arrested him for more than six months but could not found any evidence. He further said that NAB...

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