No early elections, says Premier
Bureau Report

PESHAWAR—Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Friday held out categorical assurance that the general elections would be held on time next year and guaranteed smooth sailing of the balloting in a fair, free and transparent fashion in the country.
Addressing a meeting of the PML parliamentarians, district nazimeen, provincial leaders of the Muslim league and office bearers here at Governor House, Prime Minister said that for the first to time in the history of the country the present assemblies would complete their tenure as elections would be held on time next year.
He stressed the need for coherence in the ranks of PML and unity with the allied parties so that it could emerge triumphant in the next elections. The PML he added would go to the people on the basis of its performance in the government. “PML and its allied parties will fully participate in the next general elections with its agenda,” he maintained.
Shaukat Aziz told the gathering that all decisions were being made with consultation and mutual understanding with a view to pushing the political agenda of the party towards success in the election. “Our contacts with other political parties should not be misconstrued and it does not necessarily mean that the PML would enter into any alliance with them in the coming polls,” he clarified. “The PML being the founding party of the country has its own identity which always worked for the progress and prosperity of the country .”
The PML and its allied parties’candidates in the next elections would go to the electorates with their head high for seeking their votes. The PML leaders and workers should convert the progress made by the present government in to increasing vote bank of the party.
The performance of PML government under the dynamic leadership of President Musharraf is continuing unabated and has achieved great laurels in the field of development which has no precedence in the past. Billion rupees mega projects are under way in the country which on completion would give boost to the socio economic life of the down trodden masses and referred to some of gigantic projects like Lowari tunnel, Gomal zam Dam and Peshawar Islamabad motorway projects in the frontier province.Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan Muslim League can take justifiable pride and satisfaction over the fact that the Women Protection Bill, after its assent by President General Pervez Musharraf, has become law of land.
The Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz made these observations while talking a group of parliamentarians comprising Federal Minister for KANA Maj (Retd) Tahir Iqbal, Minister of State for Housing Sardar Asif Nakai, MNA Ch. Wajahat Hussain and Minister of State for Interior Mr Zafar Waraich, who called on him at the PM’s House on Friday.
The Prime Minister said that the PML’s allies in the governing coalition also played a vital role in the passage of the Bill in the Parliament and can take credit for its becoming a law.