HYDERABAD: A leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and grandson of Allama Iqbal, Waleed Iqbal, has expressed the hope that all things regarding the transparency of the elections would be clear by July.

Speaking a brief press conference held at the local press club on Monday, he said the chief justice of Pakistan would retire on Aug 17. If the judicial commission did not give a decision regarding poll rigging before the retirement, all efforts would be in vain as the inquiry would have to be launched again.

He said that nobody should give comments on the commission unless the probe was completed because it would be premature to say anything about the judicial body.

He said it was a historic step that a judicial commission was set up. All credit for this went to the struggle made by the PTI, including its 126 days of protest sit-in, he added.

He said the PTI had emerged as a third force in the country and it would continue to play its role in future.

He said the PTI was devoid of hereditary politics and status quo, but there were ups and downs in every party.

He said it was the PTI which had formed democratic values in the party. Some people raised objections to rigging in the intra-party elections, he said while admitting that there were lapses and mistakes in the intra-party elections.

Therefore the party’s four-year period of the election was ended after two and a half years and the party chairman announced an interim set-up after dissolving all bodies of the country.

He said PTI leader Dr Arif Alvi was made coordinator in Sindh for the interim set-up of the party and other leaders were given responsibilities in other provinces in this regard.

PTI leaders Dr Mustansar Billa, Jehangir Rehman, Allah Dad Nizamani, Muneer Mughal, Tasneem Zuhra and others were present.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2015

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