Govt plans to amend election laws: Tarar.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Law Minister Azam NaAzir Tarar has said that the govt is seriously considering to amend election laws for ensuring transAparent polls in the country. 'We are seriously thinking and careAfully examining that at least those amendments should be included which already have the consensus,' said Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar while addressing a stakeholder's conference on electoral transparency jointly hosted by Center for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI), CoaliAtion for Elections and Democracy (CED) and Fredrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The conference was attended by Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Mustafa Kamal, Taj Haider of Pakistan PeoAple's Party, Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Senator Anwar Kakar, Fredrick Neumann's Birgit Lamm, PILADAT's Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, CPDI's Mukhtar Ahmed Ali and others. Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar said,

'Elections are very important but we need to see the environment too.' He said that unfortunately successive govts did not give importance to the loAcal govt elections which are key for democracy and democratic process. He said, 'We need to change our attitude towards this.' Senator Taj Haider of PPP while addressing the conference said that the cenAsus and delimitations were key ingredients for free and fair...

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