ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that a systematic pattern in 2013 general elections has emerged, evidence of which was presented before the judicial commission.
“On average, 3% to 4% extra ballots were printed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P); however, in Safdar Abbasi’s electorate, who happens to be Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law, 16% extra ballots were printed,” Imran claimed, while addressing the media in Islamabad.
In Lahore, he said, 120,000 extra ballots were printed in NA-125 whereas in NA-122, the figure was over 70,000.
Similarly, he claimed, in Hamza Shahbaz’s constituency, 62,000 extra ballots were sent, which is almost 21% extra than the original quantity that had to be printed, whereas in NA-118, the amount of extra ballots printed was 56,000.
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The PTI chief argued that the role of Punjab’s election commissioner Anwer Mehboob in rigging was also evident.
“He lied that he only provided ballots asked by the returning officers (ROs),” said Imran. “This is on record, Jahangir Tareen’s RO asked for 15,000 extra ballots but Mehboob sent the said amount twice. In total, 30,000.”
The PTI chief said he had no doubts that the provincial election commissioner had sent those ballot papers.
A judicial commission under CJP Justice Nasirul Mulk is probing the alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections.
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