Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan on Monday strongly condemned the “continuing indecisiveness of Election Tribunals” to open up NA-122 for vote recount and thumbprint verification, despite the overwhelming evidence of irregularities that have become evident in PP-147 after merely six polling stations were opened for verification.
According to reports, Khan said that National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has revealed that in the six polling stations opened up in PP-147, 3,267 out of the 4,726 votes could not be verified, while NADRA identified that the national identity card numbers written on 696 vote counterfoils were fake. In addition, 69 percent of the votes polled in the six polling stations of PP-147 were found to be bogus, Khan alleged.
The PTI chief alleged that in the six polling stations, there were also 1,590 vote counterfoils that carried poor quality fingerprints, affixed on used counterfoils due to non-utilisation of proper ink.
The PTI chief said that another sign of rigging was the discovery of seven vote bags in the six polling stations when each polling station should only have only one vote bag.
Khan added that 117 polling stations in PP-147 fall under NA-122, from where he had contested. He said that if opening up of mere 6 polling stations had revealed such massive fraud, the audit of 290 polling stations of NA-122 would show even more “shocking evidence of vote tampering and rigging”.
‘ET JUDGE NOT KEEPING HIS PROMISE’:
He said that the ET judge had committed to opening up all polling stations of PP-147 for verification if discrepancies were found in the six polling stations but so far nothing has been done in this regard.
The PTI chairman asserted that despite this clear evidence of wrongdoing, the ET, which was considering his petition for opening up of NA-122 for verification had failed to take any action.
KHAN WANTS NA SPEAKER TO RESIGN:
Khan wondered why National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq was shielding behind court stay orders instead of having the moral courage to seek the truth through vote and thumbprint verifications. Khan said that under the circumstances, Sadiq had lost credibility and should resign from his post till the verification process for NA-122 is completed.
KHAN SAYS VOTE AUDIT WILL EXPOSE PML-N’S ‘RIGGING’:
Khan stated that if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had tried not to prevent the auditing of votes and thumbprint verifications in four constituencies, PTI would not have been compelled to take to the streets. Khan said that PTI waited for over a year to seek justice against rigging at all available forums, including the tribunals, Supreme Court and Parliament, but to no avail.
Khan said it was obvious why the PML-N-led government was unwilling to allow the audit of votes in the four constituencies demanded by PTI, adding that if these four constituencies were opened the PML-N’s “massive planned rigging” would stand exposed and their government would lose all moral and legal grounds to govern.
Khan said that one of the clearest proofs of planned rigging was the vote jump for PML-N from 6,805,304 votes in the 2008 elections to the ‘rigged’ 14,874,104 votes in the 2013 elections.
“For a party that performed poorly on all fronts in Punjab where they were in power after 2008, it is inconceivable that their vote bank would have jumped to more than double in 2013,” said Khan.
“Barring the controversial Metro bus in Lahore, the government’s performance in Punjab in the agriculture and industrial sector is abysmal,” said Khan.
The PTI chief said that load shedding has reached new heights and protests against the PML-N government in Punjab are coming from all segments of society – teachers, clerks, doctors, students, farmers and industrialists.
Khan vowed to expose the 2013 electoral fraud of 2013, saying that the people of Pakistan need to know that those who sought to steal their mandate would be brought to justice.
The PTI chief said that if the perpetrators of vote fraud are not exposed and punished, electoral reforms for the future would be insignificant.
what imran khasra khan has said is all what he has been doing in KP. his so called immediate relief strategy has ravaged industry, agriculture and infrastructure in kp. my home is some meters across a bridge which is even after one year in a hope of completion. despite the fact that rigging is his own figment he should know that these polling stations will reveal his failure but the issue of magnetic ink will remain. this is the point he wants to secure a lost election.
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