{"id":33368,"date":"2023-12-09T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ecp-caretakers-trying-hard-to-ensure-nawaz-wins-two-thirds-majority-in-polls-aitzaz-ahsan\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:01:58","slug":"ecp-caretakers-trying-hard-to-ensure-nawaz-wins-two-thirds-majority-in-polls-aitzaz-ahsan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ecp-caretakers-trying-hard-to-ensure-nawaz-wins-two-thirds-majority-in-polls-aitzaz-ahsan\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP, caretakers \u2018trying hard\u2019 to ensure Nawaz wins two-thirds majority in polls: Aitzaz Ahsan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Veteran politician and senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan has claimed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the caretaker government are trying to ensure Nawaz Sharif wins a two-thirds majority in next year\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way things are going, they are trying to give Mian Sahib a two-thirds majority. The election commission, the administration and the caretakers [are in this]. However, it will not be easy,\u201d Ahsan said in an interview on <em>DawnNewsTV<\/em> programme \u201cDoosra Rukh\u201d on Friday night.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Downsizing in PTI, Key Leader Out | Will IPP Overtake PTI? | Doosra Rukh | Dawn News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vd64Kk20ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ahsan said Nawaz being prime minister was a forgone conclusion. \u201cHe already is prime minister. Today he\u2019s getting the protocol of a prime minister. He has become PM for the fourth time. Now the rest of it is ceremonial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, if there is a level playing field, PML-N will have a very minor part in the next [National] Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called PML-N a <em>ladla<\/em> \u2014 favoured one. \u201cPML-N has been given special treatment. [Nawaz] was in London for four years; has any prisoner or criminal been granted such permission? He [Nawaz] said he\u2019d be gone for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the man [Shehbaz] who gave guarantees for him became the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuslim League Noon are not just <em>ladlay<\/em>, they are <em>ladla<\/em> plus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"bat-symbol\" href=\"#bat-symbol\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Bat symbol<\/h2>\n<p>He also spoke about PTI\u2019s attempts to retain its bat symbol for the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are several options they have \u2014 which I won\u2019t be able to delve into \u2014 because I have shared them with my associate [PTI chairman] Gauhar Khan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said even if the bat symbol is stripped from the PTI, \u201cthe bat symbol can come through other ways.<\/p>\n<p>He said those who think they can \u201celiminate\u201d parties, have forgotten how despite hanging Zulfikar Bhutto, the PPP came into power three times. \u201cThere can be no elimination. Benazir Bhutto was martyred. She has left this world. In that same year, her party came into power with a party prime minister and president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1780451\">emba\u00ad\u00ad\u00adttled<\/a> PTI has asked the ECP to immediately allot it the \u201cbat\u201d as its electoral symbol for the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party, which has complained of the lack of a level playing field, termed the delay in issuance of the electoral symbol \u201cunjusti\u00adfiable\u201d and \u201cintolerable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, PTI spokesperson had urged the watchdog to promptly release detailed decision in line with the verbal order given on Aug 30, as it had no legal and constitutional justification to withhold the party\u2019s electoral symbol.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman made it clear that the concept of free, fair and transparent polls \u201cwithout the largest and most formidable political force of the country was a farce\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the \u201cconspiracy to keep PTI out of the electoral arena on the state-mandated and unkn\u00adown technical grou\u00adnds\u201d was akin to an attack on the Constitution and political system of the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran politician and senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan has claimed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the caretaker government are trying to ensure Nawaz Sharif wins a two-thirds majority in next year\u2019s general elections. \u201cThe way things are going, they are trying to give Mian Sahib a two-thirds majority. 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