By IRNA
Rawalpindi : President Pervez Musharraf has said that democracy is the only way for sustainable progress and prosperity and asserted that the forthcoming elections would be free, fair, transparent and peaceful.
He was talking to a delegation of international election observers of Centre for Media and Democracy.
He said that the caretaker governments, which are non-political and neutral in character, are mandated to carry on the governance process in an impartial manner.
The members of the delegation expressed the hope that all the important measures taken by the government to ensure transparency and neutrality of the election process will contribute to peaceful elections in the country.