ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar Tuesday said the government’s prime mandate was to assist and monitor the electoral process.
He said that keeping in view the prime mandate, the caretaker set-up would monitor its day-to-day activities to the best of its abilities.
“We are here as a constitutional continuation for a limited period of time and we are not here to design the government model or structure,” the prime minister told the cabinet meeting.
He believed that as a continuation of the previous government, the caretaker government was generally supposed to carry on with the general policy until and unless there were any violations of rules or business.
“The National Assembly has retired and we are waiting for the new elections,” he told the cabinet. He said the second arm of the parliament – the Senate – was still there but, he added, it could not do legislation until there was the Lower House (national assembly). —APP
