“The Supreme Court of Pakistan should announce the final verdict soon to quell all speculations and rumours that have been surrounding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,” Gilani said while address a press conference in Multan Sunday.
Gilani said PPP is an ideological party and will wait for the Supreme Court’s decision.
The Pakistan Peoples Party leader dispelled that likelihood of a clash between institutions. He anticipated that the government should complete its mandated tenure, and the next general elections should be held in 2018.
Gilani said that PM Sharif should take the nation into confidence if he believes that a conspiracy has been hatched against him. “The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict based on the JIT report, and all political parties are active over the matter” he said.
“A quick decision (by the Supreme Court) will normalize the situation in the country,” he said. “I am in favor of the government completing its tenure. Next elections should be held in 2018.”
Talking about election reforms, Gilani said that all parties need to work for them.
“Without election reforms, we cannot have transparent elections,” he said. “We need election reforms for real change.”
The former PM was of the view that it is only the PPP that has actually represented the people of southern Punjab. “All the presidents, ministers and governors from this region were nominated by the PPP,” he said. “PML-N and PTI will give us nothing.”
Gilani said that the safety and security of the nation is in safe hands.
When asked about self-confessed Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, Gilani pointed out that he was the first prime minister to have spoken about foreign interference in Balochistan. He said that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was visionary leader who gave the nation the 1973 Constitution, and his services to make Pakistan a nuclear power cannot be undermined.
Gilani said that he has not yet pondered over running in the next election. About the party manifesto, he said a committee has been formed to form a successful one which will be fully implemented.
