Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) candidates for National Assembly and Sindh Assembly on Saturday filed complaints with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Fakruddin G Ebrahim against alleged "rigging, manipulation, capturing of polling stations, forcible eviction of polling agents from polling stations, snatching of ballot papers" during the polling on May 11.
Complainants included JI candidates for NA-245 Merajul Huda Siddiqui, candidate for NA-241 Laiq Khan, candidate for NA-252 Muhammad Hussain Mahenti, Naimatullah Khan from NA-250, Abdul Jameel Khan from NA-255, Asadullah Bhutto in NA-253, Taufeequddin for NA-257, Naseem Siddiqui in PS-101, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman in PS-103 and Nasrullah Khan Shajih in PS-116.
The JI leaders insisted that MQM activists supported by "polling staff, law-enforcement agencies and provincial election commission" committed "mass rigging" in general elections of May 11 in various constituencies, including NA-257, NA-250, NA-253, NA-251, NA-256, NA-246, NA-249, NA-245.
The JI leaders were of the view that similar rigging was also reported in PS-117, PS-121, PS-113, PS-126, PS-94, PS-95, PS-88, PS-89, PS-125, PS-101 and PS-110.
They appealed to the Election Commissioner of Pakistan (ECP) to declare the election results of May 11 "null and void" and issue order for "fresh, untainted re-polling" in Karachi.
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