ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold new polls as he rejected by-elections results in Daska NA-75.
“ECP has stopped the Daska result, it should announce its decision,” he said. While talking to members of the press, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the results in Daska were changed through the rigging. “They took the candidate who was trailing at number three to the top position,” he claimed by adding that in the Kurram Agency by-poll held on the same day, 6 fake votes were detected
“Polling officers were either complicit or helpless. We cannot accept NA-75 results,” JUI-F Head said. It is to be noted that the Election Commission of Pakistan reserved its verdict on the NA-75 Daska by-elections case that will be announced today at 3:00 pm.
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It must be noted that ECP earlier had halted the final results of NA-75 as some of the presiding officers were allegedly kidnapped in order to manipulate the election results.
Earlier, Maulana Fazlur Rehman had denied media reports that he is quitting as the chairman of the PDM. He referred to news items news on various media channels as “baseless and unfounded” and said they hold no degree of truth.
He said that he was not quitting the chairmanship of PDM. He said those spreading such false news are scared of PDM’s popularity. He denied any rift in the ranks of PDM through such false news reports.
