Rashid worried over delay in announcement of date for elections

The question who would announce the date, the ECP or the president, has yet to be decided

RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says the issue of general elections is getting complicated day by day as the controversy surrounding announcement of date lingers on. 

In his statement on the social media website X on Friday, he said the question who would announce the date, the Election Commission or the president, had yet to be decided. 

ملک کے اندر انتخابات کا معاملہ روز بروز پیچیدہ ہوتا جا رہا ہےتاریخ الیکشن کمیشن نے دینی ہے یا صدر نےاسکا فیصلہ ہونا باقی ہےگیند لاء منسٹری کی کورٹ میں ہےڈالر ٹرپل سینچری کر چکا ہےکھانے کا تیل اور گاڑی چلانے کا تیل اور بجلی کا بل اور آٹا چینی غریب کے لیے سنگین صورت اختیار کر چکا…

— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) August 25, 2023

The former minister wrote that the ball was now in the court of law ministry. 

Regarding the economic woes of the common man, Rashid said the dollar had completed triple century. [Rising prices of] food and petrol, electricity and flour, sugar have become a serious issue. 

He said Pakistan's economic problems had become grim. Despite aid from Saudi Arabia and China, depreciation of rupee against the dollar continues. “In the next five years, we need $88 billion. Now no one is ready to give us dollars. It is unclear what will happen.”

The former federal interior minister said Waqar Masood was his close friend. He would ask him to resolve the issue of petrol and electricity [price hike] and make flour affordable to the poor, otherwise the problem would become serious and complicated. 

“Then no one will be able to handle it.”