ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has said that he was sure that Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s role as the National Assembly (NA) speaker was about to end. He said that they would enter the assemblies by winning the new elections.
He claimed that 50,000 ballot papers of 2013 general elections were missing.Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, the PTI chief said, “Mian Sahib’s habit of nominating his umpires is still in place.”
Khan claimed that his party had got forensic tests of votes and signature of presiding officers was found bogus.He was of the view that returning officers were involved with the PML-N in election rigging. He said had his party not preferred Dharna, the reality of PML-N’s rigging could not have been exposed.
The PTI chief went on to say that rigging had already been planned in the Gilgit-Baltistan council elections. “We want fair and transparent elections in GB as well,” said Khan.
Khan also announced to challenge the appointment of caretaker chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan in the Supreme Court after alleging him to be a worker of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. —Agencies Mumtaz Alvi adds: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has claimed that the real game played by returning officers (ROs) in rigging the 2013 general elections stood proved.
He said that the ROs had played the real part in rigging the last general elections. He asserted had they not staged the sit-in, it would have taken him five years to prove rigging charges.He claimed that his party votes were thrown out and bags were stuffed with fake PML-N votes at each polling station. He charged the biggest ever rigging was conducted in the 2013 elections.
Imran maintained the time was on his side and he knew well what was going to happen next, adding now the tribunals would issue judgements in poll petitions fast and everything would become crystal clear with regard to the poll rigging.
He thanked the Election Commission of Pakistan for writing to the tribunals for early decisions in the election petitions. He emphasised installation of a neutral setup to free, fair and transparent elections in the region.
Meanwhile, PTI Central Information Secretary Shireen Mazari, referring to Kashmir Solidarity Day, observed on February 5, stated that the Kashmir dispute was a recognised international dispute on the UNSC agenda.
“It is morally and politically unacceptable for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and especially the five permanent members to keep this issue of self-determination unresolved for decades. As a result, the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir continue to suffer oppression at the hands of Indian forces similar to Israeli oppression of Palestinians,” she noted.
She contended that the relevance of UNSC resolutions was as critical today as it was when they were passed because the principle of self-determination remains enshrined in the UN Charter.“In addition, it should be remembered that India took the Kashmir dispute to the UNSC under Chapter VI of the Dispute thereby accepting it as a dispute between two members of the UN. Had India thought Pakistan was an aggressor state, it would have gone to the UN under Chapter VII of the Charter. Therefore Pakistan is a legitimate party to the Kashmir Dispute,” Mazari said.
Successive governments of Pakistan, she pointed out, had failed the nation and the Kashmiri people by having no clear Kashmir policy. “We must reassert the primacy of the Kashmir dispute’s resolution and reaffirm our belief that we will stand by what the Kashmiri people want and that determination can only be made through a plebiscite conducted by the UN,” she argued.
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