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ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister Khursheed Shah said on Tuesday that the current assemblies would be dissolved on March 30, 2013, and the caretaker government would be installed to hold elections in two months.
Talking to reporters after chairing a parliamentary committee meeting to appoint a new chief election commissioner (CEC), Shah said that early elections could only be held if the opposition changes its current confrontational attitude. He said the federal government was determined to hold local government elections in September this year.
About the dual nationality case and the suspension of the memberships of Rehman Malik and Farahnaz Ispahani, Shah said that it was a sensitive matter, and that the election commission had committed a mistake in the matter as it had not included in the form that those holding dual nationality could not become members of the parliament.
Earlier the committee considered the names of Justice (r) Fakhrudin G Ibrahim, Justice (r) Nasir Aslam Zahid, Justice Shakirullah Jan, Justice (r) Munir A Sheikh and Justice (r) Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal for the vacant post of the CEC. Shah said that consensus could not be reached over a single name. He said the committee could review the names proposed by the prime minister and the opposition leader in the National Assembly. During the meeting, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani deplored the attitude of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for its rowdy behavior during the presentation of fiscal budget and called it a repeat of history when the treasury benches had to surround the finance minister and Benazir Bhutto in parliament for their protection.
Gilani said the civil society and media did not like the extremely un-parliamentary, undemocratic and unethical behavior of the opposition party on the budget day. He maintained that the PPP and PML-Q had decided not to disrupt the budget session of the Punjab Assembly where they had a support of about 175 members. “The people of Pakistan want the opposition to behave like a democratic entity and desist from hooliganism, and instead concentrate on pointing out the deficiencies in the budget and give proposals to the government for improving the health of the economy,” he added.