The winning candidate of Lahore’s electoral constituency NA-128, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N)’s Malik Afzal Khokhar on Saturday expressed lack of confidence on the Election Tribunal (ET) judge as an enquiry committee revealed that 30,472 votes cast were bogus whereas there is no record of another 21,493 votes in the constituency.
*PML-N’s candidate files petition to move case to another tribunal
The committee was constituted on a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s candidate Karamat Khokhar before an ET headed by Judge Kazim Malik.
Per the report, the returning officer (RO) had recorded an additional 30,472 votes in favour of the winning candidate.
Furthermore, Patwari Raheel Asghar worked in the capacity of assistant presiding officer at Polling Station 11 and there is no record of ballots at that station.
Presiding officers of more than 175 polling stations did not submit the record of ballots while at many polling stations the ballot papers were submitted to ROs in fertiliser sacks.
Moreover, there is no record of how many ballot papers were used and how many were wasted.
The winning candidate has expressed lack of confidence in the committee’s judge and has requested the transfer of the case to another tribunal which resulted in delay of verdict.