anwaar—ul—haq kakar, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me.you have what it takes to steer pakistan through these really tough times? well, definitely. we are committed to steer pakistan out of these challenging and difficult times. and for that, the laws of the country are there to guide us, help us and enable us to do the right thing. and that's what we're going to do. doing the right thing really means a priority for you is to ensure that the elections in january for the national assembly are free and fair. how confident are you that they will be? i'm pretty much confident that they're going to be free and fair. whatever the objective tests are by any international observer or international media or domestic media or domestic observers, those indicators which does determine any sort of transparent and independent elections in that region, i'm pretty much confident that we're going to acquire and achieve that. but, look, i have to put it to you that you've got the very popular opposition politician of the pti — the pakistan tehreek—e—insaf p