ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will address the nation 07:00 pm on Thursday, hours after he received the report of Inquiry Commission on the alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections.
“The premier will be address the nation at 7pm today,” a PM House statement read.
The address of the prime minister will be broadcast live on Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television.
The sources said that the prime minister in his address will take the nation into confidence over the findings of the Judicial Commission which was formed to probe rigging allegations during the 2013 polls.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will address the nation at 7:00 PM
— PML(N) [Official] (@pmln_org) July 23, 2015
Earlier on Wednesday night, a three-member Judicial Commission led by the Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk and comprising Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Ejaz Afzal sent its 300-report to the Prime Minister House.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders claimed that the commission had rejected all allegations of systematic and organized rigging in the polls levelled by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Meanwhile, the prime minister has also called his legal team for briefing on the report on Thursday afternoon.
In a statement, the spokesman of Prime Minister House said that the team will brief the prime minister on the report and subsequently the report will be uploaded on the website of the Ministry of Law.
In a message on the social website Twitter, the Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal claimed that the Judicial Commission has cleared general elections held in May 2013 and rejected PTI allegations on all three charges.
On the other hand, the PTI has said that it would come out with a response after going through contents of the commission’s report.
