"Sirf election hona kaafi nahi...," PTI leader Atif Khan opens up on elections 2024
"Sirf election hona kaafi nahi...," PTI leader Atif Khan opens up on elections 2024
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00:00 Your intra-party election is so controversial.
00:04 The ECP has to hear it on the 18th.
00:07 You have to get a bullet mark.
00:09 What will happen in the elections?
00:10 Here, you couldn't get a hearing in the Supreme Court.
00:13 You are not getting judicial officers.
00:15 The same ROs, DROs, the administrative ROs, DROs,
00:19 you will have to follow them in the elections.
00:22 What expectations have you set for these elections?
00:26 Thank you very much, Anika.
00:29 First of all, why are there elections?
00:33 So that the people can choose their representatives.
00:37 So, just having elections is not a guarantee
00:41 that this is a democracy
00:42 or the people are using their right and choosing their representatives.
00:49 It is very important to be free and fair with the elections.
00:54 Wherever the word 'election' comes from,
00:56 it always means 'free and fair'.
01:00 So, if there were elections,
01:02 and if there were no free and fair elections,
01:05 I don't think there would be any benefit of those elections.
01:08 Then why are you not boycotting?
01:09 Why are you saying repeatedly that we will not boycott?
01:12 We will fight the elections.
01:13 There is no hope in such elections.
01:15 So, why are you boycotting?
01:18 We will fight the elections on our side.
01:25 I was just telling you a simple thing.
01:28 The Supreme Court's decision yesterday,
01:30 the DRO's or RO's,
01:34 they are basically government officials.
01:37 And those government officials,
01:39 where are they?
01:40 Government officials have their salary,
01:44 their transfer posting, their promotion,
01:47 everything is dependent on the government.
01:50 If you look at it,
01:52 the judiciary officers are not dependent on any of these.
01:57 If the judiciary makes a decision that is against you,
02:02 then it is said that they are above the international ranking of 138-140.
02:07 Look, we are not saying this.
02:09 All the political parties,
02:12 as you said in the DRO,
02:15 all the political parties say that
02:17 we will not allow free and fair elections in Pakistan.
02:21 But if they are done under the judiciary,
02:24 then it will be better.
02:26 Got your point.
02:27 Nasir Hussain Shah,
02:29 will the Pakistan People's Party also want
02:31 such elections where questions cannot be raised?
02:35 And can such elections be held under those DRO's and RO's
02:41 who handle administrative matters,
02:43 whose transfer, posting,
02:46 and many other matters are related to the politicians of the career?
02:51 In comparison to the judicial officers?
02:56 In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.
02:58 Allahumma Salli 'Ala Muhammad wa 'Ala Muhammad.
03:01 Look, the DRO's and RO's punishment,
03:06 the Pakistan People's Party has a lot of reservations on this.
03:11 And we also want that they be given the judiciary's powers.
03:19 But there are other administrative people below,
03:22 not just all the people from the judiciary.
03:25 But we don't want anything that postpones the elections.
03:32 Because the Pakistan People's Party has a clear stance,
03:35 our stance is absolutely clear,
03:37 that the elections should have been held in 90 days.
03:41 Now that the date of 8th February has come,
03:45 then it should be held in any case.
03:47 And we are very hopeful,
03:49 and Qazi Faiz Issa Sahib's decision yesterday,
03:53 the way he did it, we pay him a lot of respect.
03:57 Because these 'if and buts' had started,
04:00 in fact, many senior members of the PTI,
04:04 who came and said to the media,
04:06 that we didn't say that they should make a big commission for the elections.
04:11 But that thing has been cleared, that the elections will be held on 8th.
04:14 But even now, your reservations,
04:17 the PTI's, which are yours, are still present in their place.
04:20 The PTI had taken a request and went to the Lahore High Court.
04:24 Will the Pakistan People's Party just keep on talking in their language,
04:27 or will they also move forward and say,
04:29 at least give us the judiciary?
04:31 Because the election commissioner of Pakistan says,
04:32 that we had asked the High Court to give us the judicial officers,
04:35 but they didn't give it.
04:36 This can be taken as a misstatement.
04:40 Look, the issue is that,
04:44 many things have come out from the PTI,
04:49 in which they themselves want the elections to be delayed.
04:54 They say that this is something, and they do this.
04:57 What was the first forum of that?
05:01 It was the election commission, right?
05:02 They went there.
05:03 Our delegation came together with the chief election commissioner.
05:07 I was in that delegation myself.
05:09 We have put all these reservations in front of them.
05:12 They have said that wherever there are such complaints,
05:15 we are checking, we can change it there.
05:17 What was the need to go to the court like this,
05:22 and everyone saw that the elections are going to happen.
05:24 Why?
05:25 Because this timing is very important.
05:28 The 54-56 days that are required after the schedule,
05:33 how would they have come?
05:35 If the case would have gone till 18th,
05:36 and then it would have taken another 1-2 days,
05:38 and then like the Chief Justice was going on leave,
05:43 so this is the reason.
05:45 You met the Chief Election Commissioner.
05:49 Was it fruitful?
05:52 Because DROs and ROs are still there.
05:54 The administration people.
05:56 Look, they said that we are checking,
05:59 and they told us that we wrote to the high courts,
06:03 and the high courts refused for this.
06:06 So what could we have done?
06:07 We want, but the first allegation is that
06:10 they want to delay the elections.
06:13 We want the elections to happen on time.
06:15 So the availability of officers,
06:17 or the way it has been happening before,
06:19 we had to put the same allegations.
06:22 Otherwise, we wrote to the high courts.
06:24 This was the job of the high courts,
06:26 that they would have provided us and we would have filled it.
06:29 But in contrast to this,
06:30 whatever you were saying earlier,
06:33 that like my brother is very respectable,
06:37 he is related to PTI,
06:39 or my sister is from PMLN,
06:41 she is also very respectable to us.
06:43 So the way PTI's friends were saying,
06:45 they forgot their own election of 2018.
06:48 They will come to that, Shah sahib.
06:51 They will dig the graves,
06:53 but first they will see if the matter is going to the grave or moving forward.
06:57 But Maiza Amir Sahiba, you are being called the King's Party.
07:00 Are you,
07:01 only your community is saying that
07:03 DROs should be elected as per their wish,
07:06 and move forward,
07:08 and the matter should be settled.
07:10 I don't know if it is done or not.
07:12 Do you have any reservations that DROs should not be organized?
07:18 In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most merciful.
07:22 Thank you for inviting me to your show.
07:24 First of all, I would like to congratulate the community,
07:28 that the conspiracy of PTI to delay the election,
07:32 like other conspiracies,
07:35 has failed.
07:37 The election will be held on time, God willing.
07:40 I would like to congratulate the community,
07:43 and the courts as well,
07:46 that they have taken such a timely step.
07:49 Secondly, you are saying that
07:52 DROs should be organized,
07:54 and other officials should be organized.
07:57 Where should they be from,
07:59 and how should they be organized?
08:00 The thing is,
08:02 all the officials are non-partisan officials,
08:05 and their job is to serve the nation,
08:09 and the process of election should be done
08:13 in a transparent manner.
08:19 We have no issue with DROs or ROs,
08:24 whether they are from the judiciary or the bureaucracy.
08:28 It is not important.
08:30 The most important thing is
08:32 that the elections should be held on time,
08:34 and should be transparent,
08:37 and no party should have any issue with it.