Pakistan Election Commission
2018 Pakistan polls: PPP provides ‘confidential’ report on ‘rigging’ to CEC
Islamabad: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has handed over a report on the alleged rigging in the 2018 general elections to the chief election commissioner and urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ‘take punitive action’ against those involved in ‘glaring theft of the entire general elections’.
The “Rigging Report”, which the party had prepared some two and a half years ago, was handed over to CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja by a three-member PPP delegation comprising Taj Haider, Farhatullah Babar and Nayyar Hussain Bokhari, reports The Dawn.
Babar and Bokhari are the secretary generals of the two factions of the party.
“Sir, crimes once committed are never time-barred and in the background of the punitive actions that the ECP has already taken against violations of Elections Act 2017, we look forward to further punitive actions on the theft of general election 2018,” says the letter accompanying the report as quoted by The Dawn News that has described in detail “the pre-poll, polling day and the post-poll rigging” committed allegedly by persons belonging to the administration and security institutions.
“Unfortunately, the polling staff appointed by the ECP miserably failed to stop these crimes. It is also possible that some of the appointed staff became partners in these crimes,” it stated.
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