Sirajul Haq reiterates call for early elections, asking PM to ensure polls as soon as possible instead of focusing on executions of projects.

LAHORE -- Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq has reiterated the call for early elections, asking the prime minister to ensure the polls as soon as possible instead of focusing on executions of projects.

It was responsibility of the new government to introduce electoral reforms with the consensus of all political parties before the general elections, Sirajul Haq added while addressing a press conference at Mansoorah on Friday. Sirajul Haq welcomed the DG ISPR statement about the impossibility of martial law, saying it ended many doubts and confusions. The institutions including judiciary, military and election commission must keep their neutrality intact in the benefit of the country. If establishment interfered into politics, it must expect criticism from political workers, he said.

The JI chief demanded the government review agreements with the IMF, bring down prices of food items and petrol and decrease the electricity and gas tariff. The old status of the State Bank of Pakistan must be restored, he said.

Sirajul Haq called for implementation of the JI-PPP agreement on Karachi reforms and Sindh local government. He said the new government should address the concerns of the people of Gwadar and other areas of Balochistan. The government, he said, should recognize Afghan government and take a bold stance on Kashmir...