Pakistan Elections: Liaqat Ali Chattha says, “We transformed the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes..”

Ballot rigging allegations in Pakistan gained contemporary impetus on Saturday as a senior bureaucrat admitted to overturning hundreds of votes to ‘convert losers into winners’. The event even because the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led protests throughout the nation over the alleged manipulation of votes. Social gathering leaders insist that its mandate was stolen within the current polls.

“We transformed the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in 13 nationwide meeting seats. For committing such a heinous crime, I’ll hand myself over to the police,” he informed reporters.

Liaqat Ali Chattha additionally implicated the pinnacle of the election fee and the nation’s high decide in his remarks. The ballot physique has nevertheless rejected the allegations, even because it confirmed plans to “maintain an enquiry”.

Punjab’s caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has additionally ordered an “neutral probe” into the allegations made by Chattha.

Chattha stated he had personally supervised the rigging of votes in Rawalpindi following the elections in early February. Many of the seats within the space had been by the way claimed by candidates from the PML-N and PPP — who swept apart candidates loyal to the jailed former prime minister.

The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) referred to as it a case of “political allegiance” dictating the bureaucrat’s claims.

Unbiased candidates – a majority backed by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – received 93 of the 265 Nationwide Meeting seats that had been contested within the February 8 election. Nonetheless with no group securing a transparent majority the army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has introduced a partnership with the Pakistan Folks’s Social gathering and several other smaller events to type the subsequent authorities. Greater than eight days after voting nevertheless, it stays unclear which social gathering will truly type the federal government on the Centre.

(With inputs from businesses)