General elections after completion of digital census, says Rana Sana.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Monday said straightforAwardly that the general elections would be held after the completion of 'Digital Census' in the country.

The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) is responsible to organise the elections in a transparent manner, he said while talking to a private televiAsion channel. He said the process of "Digital Census" is underway so that the next elections could be made erAror-free. Replying to a question about the exact date for elections, he said after completion of Census, it is up to the CEC to hold elections in 90-days.

About delimitation, he said that delimitation is imperative to satisAfy all the stakeholders. To a question about preparation of elections, he said, we have directed parAty workers to launch the camApaign. A day after Islamabad Police returned to the federal capital without arresting ChairAman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan from Lahore, Interior Minister Rana SanaulAlah Khan on Monday stressed that the former prime minisAter would have to appear before courts to answer charges of corAruption against him.

'Imran Khan would have to appear before the court (in the Toshakhana case against him), otherwise the government will (forcefully) produce him before it,' he said while addressing a news conference here.

At the same time, he reiteratAed his stance that the police had no plan or desire to arrest him rather it wanted to implement the order of the court, which had issued non-bailable arrest warrants of the PTI chief in the Toshakhana case.

'If the police were to arrest him (Khan), then it was not an appropriate strategy,' Rana Sanaullah said. He suggested that Khan should voluntarily surrender himself before court or he should have at least enAsured the police of his appearAance before it. He deplored that PTI had made it a practice to 'dramatize' everything. He went on to say that when the government desired to arrest him, the same would be done in no time. The minister said that the PTI played a high drama when Islamabad Police reached Zaman Park residence of the PTI chairman in Lahore to impleAment the court order. He chidAed Khan by saying that he esAcaped to a neighbour's house to avoid arrest. 'Some people say that he [Khan] jumped into his neighbour's house to hide and police were told that he was not home,' he said. After a while, he surfaced from...