Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan claimed on Tuesday that election tribunals have exposed massive rigging in the constituencies of Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique. Addressing his workers on 47th day of dharna at Azadi Square in front of Parliament House, he said that the PML-N government did massive rigging in 2013 elections; therefore they were hesitant in opening four constituencies for vote audit.
"We have a school teacher who is ready to give evidence on how the UNDP's computer system was intentionally made ineffective," he said. Elaborating his rigging claim, he said that Speaker National Assembly had been hiding behind a stay order for ten months and now prolonging the case by expressing distrust over the tribunal's judge.
"The rigging has been exposed when PP-147, the constituency under Speaker's NA 122, was opened for recount of vote by the election tribunal," he said. The PTI chief said that bogus votes were polled at 60 polling stations out of 117 in PP-147. "The ballot papers of national assembly seat have been found stuffed in the provincial assembly's candidate box," he said, adding this is the reason that the government has been running away from the vote audit in these constituencies.
PTI chief Imran Khan contested election against PML-N candidate Ayaz Sadiq in NA-125 where the latter was announced winner. But, Imran Khan says that he was defeated through rigging. Talking about Saad Rafique's constituency NA-125, he said that election tribunal's judge report says that bogus votes have been found in 168 polling stations out of 265 in the constituency. "Many bags for national assembly votes are stuffed with provincial assembly ballot papers," he said.
Khan also questioned the Election Commission of Pakistan as to why it was not uploading form fourteen on its website. "The election commission is not publishing form fourteen on its website because there is no record of the forms for half of Saad Rafique's constituency," he said.
He said the government must ensure vote audit on demand of his party and punish the culprits found involved in rigging. "Law ensures justice for all and this is how the country makes progress," he said. Criticising the government, he said that foreign loans cannot steer Pakistan out of the crisis as the people have to pay back these loans through inflation. "Had the nation made progress through foreign loans, it would have done so in last so many years," he said.
Khan said that foreign loans only help a specific group of people sitting in the government and the present government has broken all previous records of accumulating foreign loans. "There is no shortcut for success. Allah helps those who struggle to achieve their goals through sheer hard work and dedication," he said, adding that the government has increased electricity price by 80 percent on the directions of International Monetary Fund.
Talking about recent drone attacks in tribal areas of Pakistan, he said that no nation can allow any country to kill innocent people through drone strikes. "Drone attacks are condemned internationally and they are termed as extra judicial killing of innocent people," he said. The PTI chief also dubbed the party's recent Lahore public rally as the biggest gathering of people in history of Pakistan. "Over a million people participated in Lahore rally. We gave no money on transporters to bring people .... We will do our utmost to make Naya Pakistan," he maintained.