Fazl for elections after fresh census.

ISLAMABAD -- Asserting that his party believed that the elections would be held at the given time, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman expressed surprise over the Supreme Court's decision in which it had ordered elections of the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies within 90 days.

'Today, it is being said that [elections] be held within 90 days as per Constitution. Sometimes, in view of this very Supreme Court, it [the constitutional obligation] was three years... Sometimes it [Supreme Court] allows a person to amend the Constitution unilaterally and today they have set a 90 days target to hold elections at every cost,' he said while addressing a press conference here on Sunday. He sought postponement of the upcoming elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) amida 'deteriorated law and order situation' in the country. He further said that the census is also underway in the country and they believe the elections should be held after the census. The general elections in Punjab are scheduled for April 30, while the date for the polls in KP is yet to be announced as Governor Ghulam Ali has not made a decision yet. He added: 'We have to make decisions in view of the country's situation.' He said the basic question is where the Imran Khan government took the state in his three and a half years' tenure. 'Today the IMF is drafting our [country's] budget... controlling our...