The Election Fee of Pakistan has shaped a high-level committee to research allegations of ballot rigging within the nation’s latest nationwide election, reported PTI on Sunday. The committee will submit its report back to the ballot regulator inside three days.
A Pakistani bureaucrat on Saturday had alleged that the chief election commissioner and chief justice have been concerned in rigging the election to the Nationwide Meeting of Pakistan.
The bureaucrat, Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha, mentioned that “stabbing the nation in its again” wouldn’t let him sleep. “I ought to be punished for the injustice I’ve achieved and others who have been concerned on this injustice must also be punished,” Chattha mentioned, claiming that shedding candidates “have been made to win” the election. He has resigned from the put up.
The Election Fee of Pakistan has rejected Chattha’s allegations, which got here in opposition to the backdrop of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf calling for nationwide protests in opposition to the alleged ballot rigging.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s lawyer Hamid Khan had referred to as for a nationwide judicial inquiry Chattha’s allegations.
Within the nationwide election held on February 8, “unbiased” candidates backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf get together received 93 seats. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League-Nawaz get together received 75 seats and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan Individuals’s Celebration secured 54 seats.
Pakistan’s Nationwide Meeting has 336 seats, of which 266 are determined by direct voting and 70 are reserved. To type the federal government by itself, a celebration must win at the very least 134 seats by way of the poll.
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Individuals’s Celebration backed Shehbaz Sharif, a senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief, for the put up of prime minister, reported Daybreak.
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