Information minister claims Senate election was rigged

ISLAMABAD: Minister of state for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the fake democratic faces and non-democratic forces had rigged the Senate election.

While talking to the media outside the parliament house, the federal minister claimed that Zardari and Imran had entered into back-stage collusion, marking the union of two political cousins.

She further said that the entire Pakistan was watching the antics of those who danced over the finger of the umpire and vowed to destroy everything.

Marriyum said that the self-respecting people of Pakistan would reject those who set detestable examples of corruption in the past, in the coming general election.

She said that the people of Pakistan were aware how the rigging was manoeuvred adding that its consequences would be seen in the 2018 elections, when the people would give a befitting answer to it by heralding victory of the narrative of Nawaz Sharif and PML-N.

The elements who claimed to be the flag bearers of change and revolution were shaking hands and had joined those who indulged in reckless corruption for which the people of Pakistan rejected them in the past and they would again be rejected in 2018 elections, information minister said.

Referring to the possibility of some PML-N members having voted for the candidate of the opposition, Marriyum said that the senators who did not vote for the PML-N nominees for Chairman and Deputy Chairman had sold their souls and democracy.