Any delay in general elections to be minimal: Azeem
By Khalid Amin

ISLAMABAD—State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem has assured that general elections would be held on time, and any possible delay would be of minimal time.
While talking to a private TV channel, he said that currently the Country was under emergency and all the system was based on PCO (Provisional Constitutional Order), according to which public gatherings were strictly prohibited, and obviously police would discourage any such gathering anywhere, doing its utmost to quell any uprising. He blamed PPP elements of trying to access the strictly prohibited venue of Parliament House, which no one is allowed to do so and caused the confrontation. He assured that things would turn to good soon enough, and expressed his satisfaction that global forum understood Pakistan’s point-of-view well enough.
He said that all was going smooth with assemblies that were to be dissolved on 15th Nov and even the President had promised in Supreme Court to doff his uniform, hoping that despite the prevalent PCO, the general elections would be able to be held on schedule Replying to a question regarding the “Long March” of Benazir Bhutto, he said that she was entitled to a peaceful march, and this was her own personal notion, about which nothing can be said. Besides such kind of political activities were time tested.