- PATTAN summed up entire fraud in four words: Delay, Deny, Detain, Destroy: PTI leader
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) reiterated its demand for an empowered judicial commission to investigate the electoral fraud of February 8, 2024, and punish those responsible for stealing the public mandate.
PATTAN, an non-government organization (NGO), in its shocking report titled “The War Against Voters,” once again exposed the truth behind the ‘mother of all rigged polls’ in 2024, which has plunged the country into multi-dimensional crises.
PTI Central Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram said that PATTAN in its report, released on the first anniversary of the worst rigged general election, made a startling revelation regarding 2024 Election and unmasked the dirty roles of all those who conspired to manipulate the general elections, denying PTI’s electoral victory and fraudulently imposing rejected political figures on the nation.
He said that the report also revealed that all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” are still busy to save the stolen people’s mandate by enacting the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and the 26th Constitutional Amendments, which is lamentable because the biggest poll robbery in history was carried out to impose the rejected and most corrupt clique on the nation.
PTI CIS said that in the aftermath of PATTAN’s detailed postmortem report on Feb 8 electoral mega theft, the power grabbers bereft of public mandate did not have any moral and ethical justification to say in power for a single day.
Waqas alarmed that the report identified 64 new methods of electoral manipulation, coercion, and fraud used before, during, and after polling aimed at achieving “positive” results. He said that PATTAN summed up the entire fraud of electoral cycle of GE 2024 in four words: Delay, Deny, Detain, Destroy as portrayed on the title cover of the report.
PTI CIS stated that democracy can only run if the government has moral strength, as all the key pillars of democracy, including an independent judiciary, freedom of expression, a free media, and human rights, have been dismantled under the nefarious plot to crush the PTI and cover up election fraud.
Waqas emphasized that the report was a chargesheet against the ECP, which miserably failed in conducting its constitutional and legal duty justly and fairly, as the institution was buy in changing the election result forms on its website till September 2024.
He said that unlike in the past, the report exposed that the ECP did not announce a disaggregated turnout of the polls even one year after the polls, adding that either it is a result of ECP’s ineptness or it tried to hide vote-rigging, or both. PTI CIS noted that voter turnouts in hundreds of polling stations of several national constituencies of Lahore were more than 80%, in a few it was even above 100% which is impossible, but the turnouts at the shared polling stations of their respective associated provincial constituencies were on average 40% mostly in Punjab and Karachi.
Waqas stated that despite lapse of one year, the upper house of parliament remained incomplete, while over five dozen reserved seats for women and non-Muslims were still vacant in Parliament and two provincial assemblies, despite the SC full bench’s orders, distorting the constitutional parity among the federating units.
PTI CIS stated that PATTAN rightly called Rawalpindi Commissioner – Liaqat Ali Chattha a ‘lone wolf’ in a crowd of thousands of cowardly civil servants, who dared to name publicly that the then CJP Justice Qazi Fez Isa and Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja were behind the rigging. However, he said that instead of rewarding him for exposing the dirty role of these two individuals, he was disappeared and nobody knew about his whereabouts.
He said that PTI strongly supported Pattan’s recommendations of establishing a Commission of Enquiry to probe and fix responsibilities for vote-rigging, fraud and manipulation in GE-2024. He demanded that the ECP should complete the Senate by electing senators from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, besides filling the vacate seats for women and minorities because establishing parity among federating units is essential under the Constitution.
