Tag: Rigging

Khan for talks’ resumption as he braces for Faisalabad shutdown

As Insafians roll up their sleeves to shut down Faisalabad on Monday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said Saturday that his party would resume dialogue from where it was broken if the government was sincere.

Khan wants tribunal to produce NA-122 rigging evidence

PTI chief testifies before election tribunal, calls for scrutiny of each ballot paper Tribunal to decide on Monday whether or not to open the bags Sadiq’s...

Saad says Khan’s allegations ‘pack of lies’

Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique Friday dubbed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan a “fraudster” and said that Khan’s accusatory statements against...

Printing extra ballots is constitutional, says former ECP secy

Former secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Kanwar Dilshad said Friday that five to 10 percent extra ballot papers can be printed...

Khan tells JI to stop playing on both sides of wicket

*PTI chief says JI should support PTI’s struggle against electoral rigging if it is committed to enforcing Islamic principle of justice  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman...

Former minister wants 2013 elections declared void

Former interior minister moves SC to get last year’s polls declared null and void, citing possibility of extra votes casted

Rigging concerns reflect PTI’s fear of defeat in Multan by-poll: Hashmi

Former president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said Thursday that his former party’s concerns over possible rigging in the upcoming by-election...

ECP continues to plead not-guilty at PERC meeting

ECP secy says material burnt in Lahore school fire does not relate to election 2013 PERC chairman asks ECP secretary to bring minutes of meeting...

Khan chides PM for extravagance in NY

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Saturday lambasted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) in which the...

ECP fact sheet refutes poll rigging allegations

Report says excess ballot papers were not printed, ROs were called in on PTI’s requests, computerised scrutiny ensured transparency in polls while use of...

PTI has itself to blame for defeat in 2013 polls

PTI’s Review Commission report states ill-timed intra-party elections, selection of candidates sans merit, poorly-managed election campaign, PTI chief’s inadequate decisions and PTI secy general’s...

‘Rolling Khan gathers no facts’

*PML-N govt releases fact sheet 'Truth behind PTI's allegations' *Dar says PTI filed 58 petitions, including 30 against National Assembly constituencies of which 15 were...

‘ECP report validated PTI’s stance on rigging’

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi have asserted that Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has admitted massive rigging in...

Parliamentarians unanimous on Parliament’s supremacy

*Opp leader Khursheed Shah says PTI, PAT demonstrators should quit protests and negotiate solution to political crisis *Lawmaker Gulzar Khan lambasts PTI chief for not...

Bilawal says will present rigging evidence on Oct 18

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday claimed that the general elections 2013 were rigged throughout the country against his party,...

Govt won’t have PTI’s way

The parliamentary leaders who met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at his parliament chambers Wednesday disapproved of PTI’s Terms of Reference (ToRs) for the judicial commission proposed to investigate the alleged rigging in last year’s election.