Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan바카라s party on Thursday issued a white paper on the alleged 바카라rigging바카라 of the February 8 general elections and demanded the formation of a judicial commission to probe what it described as 바카라snatching of the 180 seats바카라 in Parliament.
The February 8 general elections delivered a fractured mandate. Independent candidates 바카라 a majority backed by 71-year-old Khan's PTI party 바카라 won 93 seats in the 336-member National Assembly. Former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif바카라s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 75 seats while the Bilawal Zardari Bhutto-led Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) came third with 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) won 17 seats.
Khan바카라s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has maintained that the powerful establishment had favoured Sharif바카라s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) deliberately used a different form to declare the results to 바카라steal the mandate바카라 that belonged to it.
The PML-N struck a post-poll deal with Bhutto바카라s PPP, the Pakistan Peoples Party, and four smaller parties to gain power at the federal level.
바카라We won 180 seats in the (February 8) elections. Our seats were given to other parties through Form 47,바카라 said PTI chairman Barrister Gohar at a press conference alongside other party leaders in Islamabad on Thursday.
The PTI chief said they had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the alleged rigging. 바카라But the plea has not been fixed for hearing as yet,바카라 he lamented.
바카라We are issuing a 300-page white paper to bring it to the notice of the people as to how their mandate was stolen,바카라 Geo News quoted Gohar as saying.
The PTI also lost the right to the reserved seats as its members contested elections as independent candidates.
Referring to the ECP바카라s decision to declare the party바카라s intra-party polls as invalid, the PTI chief further said his party was forced to contest the general elections without its iconic 바카라bat바카라 electoral symbol.
바카라Our victory was turned into defeat by [manipulating] election results in the Form 47,바카라 he claimed.
The PTI chief said the white paper is based on the reports of international organisations, foreign media and newspapers, and called for carrying out the electoral reforms to eliminate rigging in the polls once and for all.
PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub said the ECP was granted billions of rupees to hold free and fair elections.
바카라We demand the chief election commissioner to step down,바카라 he said, accusing the polls organising body of failing to hold transparent elections in the country, according to the Geo News report.
