Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday submitted to the court a miscellaneous appeal to his previous petition to stop by-elections scheduled on February 25, and to remove fake votes from the voter lists.
Advocate Hamid Khan submitted the petition on behalf of Imran Khan, saying that Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was holding by-elections without correcting the current voter lists.
Previously the ECP had categorically stated that the deadline given by the Supreme Court to purge the lists of fake votes by February 23, 2012 was “humanly impossible” and had sought assistance from political parties for extension of the deadline.
Hamid Khan, while talking to media, said that miscellaneous appeal was submitted because ECP was conducting elections on the same date, despite court’s orders to correct the voter lists.
The Supreme Court, while hearing Imran Khan’s earlier petition, had observed that elections cannot be conducted based on the old electoral lists and that the ECP should recompile them.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had remarked that the previous lists had over 30 million bogus votes which could not be verified.
Imran submits appeal to stop by-elections
