ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said that voters in currently held general elections exercised their constitutional rights and generally, they voted for their favourite candidates despite security challenges.

“It is beauty of vibrant democracy and in Pakistan, it is transformational democracy, also brave democracy, considering security challenges,” he said in an interview with Turkish broadcaster TRT.

To question, he said next Parliament would decide to hand over power to that party which would meet required magical number to form new government.

He said their responsibility as caretaker government was to ensure security, and ahead of elections, two terrorist incidents in Balochistan province occurred, which reminded people of real-time threat.

Responding to question about suspension of mobile services, he said to face security challenge, they had to block communication channels otherwise they did not have any political motive whatsoever.

Caretaker PM said that even though people went out and peacefully exercised their right to vote, for time being, he didn’t have figures as to how many people had voted. Probably it would have been record, which meant that everyone was allowed and their votes were counted. He said, “People of Pakistan are quite brave, they came out and voted.”

To query regarding change in previous governments, he said there were perceptions and realities and in last two decades, change in governments, like in post-2002, happened on floor of Parliament.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 12 2024

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