Shahbaz accuses Chaudhrys of plotting vote rigging

25 Dec, 2007

The President, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and former Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has accused Chaudhry brothers of plotting a drama in an attempt to conceal their rigging plans they have designed to overpower the result of the upcoming polls.
He informed the newsmen at his home on Monday that the Chaudhry brothers had deliberately started claiming fanning riots in the elections because they wanted to cover up their rigging plans. He claimed that the people of Punjab had rejected the Pakistan Muslim League-Q would be proved on January 8.
Sharif said those propagating about riots were bent on rigging the polls through fake identity cards and bogus polling stations but the people of Pakistan would never allow them to materialise their such heinous designs.
Sharif, then showed a picture of a policeman fixing a poster of PML-Q, reiterated his allegation that the state machinery was being used in the election campaign of the ruling PML-Q while stages of the PML-N were being thrown out and advised party workers to foil such rigging plans.
Further, he criticised a statement by the Attorney General, Malik Muhammad Qayyum about his brother's life-time disqualification, saying that Qayyum had the martial law clamped in the country now was giving statements that there was no need to ratify the unconstitutional steps through the assembly.

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