Islamabad
JUI-F has rejected the change made in Election Commission’s (EC) code of conduct by the federal government, claiming that only EC has authority to make such changes.
JUIF senator Kamran Murtaza said according to Article 218 of constitution of Pakistan, it is the responsibility of EC to hold free and fair elections and if it is EC responsibility then authority to make any change in code of conduct also rests with EC.
He further said that by enforcing such change through presidential ordinance, federal cabinet is humiliating itself. They are changing the code of conduct but shall oppose it in future.
Murtaza added that incompetent rulers are not able to do their work and trying to do EC’s job. It is always funny to change a constitutional amendment through ordinance.
Kamran concluded that while the parliament session is postponed, enforcing ordinance is impractical.
