The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is going to issue a white paper on the rigging in the May 11 general elections explaining how the final elections results were manipulated to achieve the desired outcome in over 35 National Assembly constituencies.
“The structure of the white paper has been written. We are putting together all [necessary] documents. It’ll be completed by the next week,” said PTI MNA Shireen Mazari.
Mazari is heading the committee that is preparing the paper that will expose how some politicians allegedly managed to obtain desired results in their respective constituencies on May 11.
Party leaders told The Express Tribune on Friday that documentary and visual proof about mismatches in the results would be presented to both the Supreme Court (SC) as well as to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
They say the preliminary findings of the committee hold presiding officers and returning officers responsible for ignoring those allegedly involved in manipulating election results at various polling stations.
“We have collected some 12,000 election-related complaints from across the country. We’ll submit them to the SC and to the ECP,” said a member of the committee.
PTI leader Hamid Khan will produce the evidence at the SC if the court takes the petition seeking probe into the May 11 polls’ rigging. The party is also moving for an early hearing of the petition already filed with the court.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan had filed a petition with the SC seeking an investigation into the alleged rigging in the general elections. The petition also maintained that the government machinery had also been used in carrying out the rigging.
The committee member said the ECP, after going through the paper, could announce re-elections in several constituencies such as NA-122 and NA-125 under the army’s supervision.
“Over two dozen polling stations witnessed a 200 percent voter turnout against the total registered votes,” he said, adding that the role of the caretaker will also be pointed in the paper to be released in a press conference by the PTI chairman.
PTI leader Shahzad Waseem was of the view that the team’s major focus remained on the alleged rigging in hundreds of polling stations in interior Sindh as well as in Karachi and Lahore.
“A chunk of complaints had been received at offices in Karachi and Lahore where several polling stations were not directly under police control, he added.