Summary Lawful demands of the protesting parties have already been accepted, the Prime Minister said.
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said that political parties winning public mandate cannot be made hostages by few thousand protestors.
The Prime Minister gave these remarks during a visit to senior journalist Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami’s house to condole his sister’s death.
Talking exclusively to Dunya News, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the government will not tolerate any undemocratic step.
He said that lawful demands of the protesting parties have already been accepted.
“Demand regarding electoral reforms was already accepted and we also offered formation of a judicial commission to probe (electoral rigging),” he said.
He said ongoing protests have caused massive damage to the country’s economy. These sit-ins have badly affected the development projects, he added.
The Prime Minister said that country is going through a tumultuous situation which will end soon.
He asserted that doors to dialogue will always remain open.
ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s election last year marked the first democratic transition in the nation s history, but Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairman Dr Tahirul Khan have alleged widespread voting fraud.
The Prime Minister refused to step down despite two weeks of protests that at their height saw tens of thousands of people camp outside the Parliament House in Islamabad.
Several rounds of negotiations between the opposition and government representatives have so far failed to make any headway.
On Thursday, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif met with Khan and Qadri, who afterward said they agreed to the military s role as "mediator and guarantor" in further talks with the government.
Khan said that General Raheel Sharif had also told him the army would guarantee an impartial judicial probe into allegations of vote fraud though Khan said he insisted "there cannot be an independent investigation so long as Nawaz Sharif is prime minister."
