‘PML-N will agree on polls if given level playing field’

LAHORE: Amid rising political temperatures and uncertainty surrounding the elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Javed Latif on Saturday said that his party would agree on holding general elections after the incumbent government completes its term if the party is given ‘level playing field’.

Addressing a press conference at Model Town, Latif — who is considered a close aide of Maryam Nawaz — said no political party wanted to avoid elections, but ‘level playing field’ should be given to all before holding elections this year, adding that the PML-N leadership had always accepted the court decisions and never indulged in politics of agitation.

He maintained that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had faced disqualification and judicial trials despite being innocent, but it was time to ensure justice for him, who had served the country as the prime minister thrice and contributed to the development and progress of the country.

Latif said that no sou moto was taken on PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s cypher conspiracy, attack on national institutions, instigating the institutions to violate the Constitution and law, the RTS [results transmission system] malfunctioning to support Imran Khan, and the PTI government’s performance, which destroyed the national economy. He said that justice parameters should be the same for all, as no one should be dear to justice and above the law.

The PML-N leader said that foreign elements wanted to pressurise the national institutions just to benefit from the chaos and political instability, caused by Khan in the country.

Berating Khan, he said the PTI chief had become a puppet of foreign elements, as he always intended to destabilise the national institutions and created hurdles in the way to the development and progress of the country.