Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said elections would be held on the basis of the digital census results . Council of Common Interest CCI the body that approves census results was expected to hold a meeting of the CCI as soon as they were finalised . The PM also said the census results would be referred to the council of common interest .
The decision has prompted a terse response from the Muttahida Qaumi MovementPakistan MQMP one of the ruling allies in the Centre that maintains Karachis population has been undercounted in the new census . The prime minister also said if his party would win the upcoming elections Nawaz would assume the role of the countrys chief executive for the fourth time .
He was assertive in saying the PMLN supremo and his brother Nawaz Sharif who is in a selfimposed exile in London on medical grounds would return to the country would come back to Pakistan as he had been cleared in the case lodged against him as he has been cleared of any charges of corruption .
He said his return would not be tied to the case . The fiveyear term of the National Assembly commenced under the thenPTI government on August and will be completed under a PMShebazled ruling coalition on the same date this year following the ouster of former premier Imran Khan through a noconfidence vote in April last year .
The National Assembly is expected to be completed on the following date this month . However with just a few days left in the dissolution of the election . The Election Commission is bound to hold the general elections within a period of the ECP is to hold an election to the Election Commission of Pakistan ECP was to hold elections within the following month .