Jailed former Pakistan chief Imran Khan will return to the submit of prime minister once more, his occasion’s senior member Faisal Javed claimed on Monday, as allegations of huge rigging of the elections shook the nation, amid public admission of vote manipulation by an election official.
Talking after securing transit bail from the Peshawar Excessive Court docket (PHC) in a case, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator mentioned that occasion chief Khan could be contesting elections from the Mianwali constituency.
“And God prepared, he’ll develop into the prime minister of Pakistan once more,” the Daybreak newspaper quoted him as saying.
The nomination papers of 71-year-old former prime minister Khan have been rejected for 2 Nationwide Meeting constituencies in Lahore and Mianwali districts of the Punjab province for the February 8 elections.
Khan, who’s in jail, has been barred from contesting elections and was additionally disqualified from holding any public workplace for 10 years.
Whereas impartial candidates backed by Khan’s PTI occasion received the utmost variety of seats in Parliament within the polls, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Celebration (PPP) have introduced that they’ll kind a coalition authorities after the elections resulted in a hung Parliament.
In an interview with Geo Information, Javed mentioned that the voter turnout on February 8, the election day, was “unprecedented” within the nation’s historical past.
Javed had gone into hiding after the state launched a crackdown on the PTI occasion after the Could 9 violence within the nation final 12 months and reappeared on Monday in the course of the listening to on the PHC.
Numerous key army buildings have been broken within the violence which adopted the former-cricketer-turned-politician Khan’s arrest by the paramilitary Rangers in Islamabad in 2023.
Khan’s beleaguered occasion acquired a significant enhance on Saturday when a senior authorities official accountable for the election course of within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi alleged that rigging occurred and dragged the Chief Election Commissioner and the Chief Justice into it.
Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha, in a bombshell press convention on Saturday, alleged that he oversaw the rigging to deprive Khan’s PTI occasion of 13 seats, which got to candidates who have been “dropping” the elections within the metropolis.
Chattha additionally claimed that Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa and Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja have been concerned within the alleged rigging and resigned from his workplace after “accepting accountability” for the manipulation of ballot outcomes.
Buoyed by the allegations of vote rigging, the PTI on Sunday demanded a judicial probe into the manipulation of the outcomes of the elections.
The PTI claims to have received greater than 180 seats within the 266-member Nationwide Meeting (NA) in accordance with Kind 45 (guide outcome sheet) however says the outcomes have been manipulated and most of its over 90 NA seats have been gifted to the three-time former premier Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
To kind a authorities, a celebration should win 133 out of 265 contested seats within the 266-member Nationwide Meeting.
Impartial candidates – a majority backed by Khan’s PTI occasion received 93 Nationwide Meeting seats within the election.
The PML-N received 75 seats, whereas the PPP got here third with 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Motion Pakistan (MQM-P) has additionally agreed to assist them with their 17 seats.
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