Govt says it wants reforms but wants another way to ‘steal elections’: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the government — in particular Prime Minister Imran Khan and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser — saying that the rulers claim they are out to bring electoral reforms but are looking for “another way to steal elections”. Addressing a press conference alongside PML-N general secretary Ahsan Iqbal and party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi asked where anyone will go when the machines are “taken away” or the data is made to “disappear”. He said the people devising these ways are those “who themselves are involved in stealing elections and who themselves came into power after the most controversial elections held in Pakistan’s history“. Abbasi said this is “akin to a wolf taking care of sheep”. “And so this wolf is saying the election system must be handed over to them as they are bringing forth reforms and an inter parliamentary committee must be formed,” he continued. ‘First
