LAHORE, Jul 24 (TNS): Caretaker Home Minister Punjab Shaukat Javaid Tuesday said that the government has taken all steps to hold transparent, free and fair general election 2018.
In a joint press conference with the caretaker Punjab Minister for Law, Finance and Excise & Taxation Zia Haider Rizvi here, the ministers said that the caretaker government had done its best to hold fair elections while all departments concerned had cooperated with the government in this regard.
They said that Caretaker Chief Minister (CM) Dr Hasan Askari believed in transparent elections. They said that PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif had been provided all required facilities in the prison, adding that decision about shifting of Nawaz to a hospital would be made on the basis of the medical reports under the law.
Shaukat said that all prisoners of the federal government are kept in Adiala Jail. Nawaz Sharif is a prisoner of the federal government, and that was why he had been lodged in Adiala Jial under the same law, he added.
“Earlier, a fan, a mist fan and later an air-conditioner had been provided to Nawaz Sharif and his food is being supplied from his home,” he added. He said that according to the medical board report, Nawaz Sharif is generally fit and he would be shifted to a hospital if it was recommended in the detailed medical report.
