ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said Saturday that the government is willing to form the proposed judicial commission to probe allegations of rigging in the May 2013 elections, adding that it will be formed within the ambit of the Constitution, said a report published on Radio Pakistan.

The minister was addressing a news conference along with Federal Minister for Information Technology Anusha Rehman in the federal capital.

The finance minister said he had written another letter and sent an e-mail as well to the PTI negotiating team containing new definition of the scope of the work of the proposed judicial commission to probe allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections.

The minister said the new draft had been sent to the PTI a made by the party during latest round of talks on Jan 20.

Dar said the remaining points can be sorted out and the judicial commission can be formed without any delay. He said it is time to sort out the issues as a lot of time had already been consumed.

The PTI had since long been demanding that a judicial commission with special powers be formulated through a presidential ordinance which if finds out that rigging was committed in selected number of constituencies, the government should go home followed by fresh elections.

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