He said all details of the working of the Commission were already before the nation.
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The PTI chief told reporters he will only comment after the report is made public and the party’s information secretary Naeem-ul-Haq also refused to comment. Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has claimed victory and urged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to apologize to the nation.
“In (the) name of rigging drama, “dharna” havoc was played with the economy”. However, the timing of the delivery of the gift this year coincided with shelling by Indian forces of villages across the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary last Thursday.
The prime minister said that they are ready to forget what happened after the elections till now but it was unfortunate that the country was defamed by making fair and spotless elections disputed.
He expressed the hope that all parties would accept the findings of the commission. He said that it is a proof that the issues should be resolved in the parliament, not on roads.
According to sources, the report states that procedural irregularities had been done in the elections but the overall polling process was transparent and in accordance with law, hence it couldn’t be declared void.
The panel has asked the law ministry to itself take a decision about publicizing the report, insiders said. The first hearing of the commission was held on April 9. It recorded testimonies of 69 witnesses, including politicians, government and judicial officers and journalists. The commission had concluded its proceedings on July 2 after almost 86 days of work.
3 – Were the GE2013 results reflective of the mandate given by the public through their votes? However, such mistakes can not be called a fraud. “Improvement in electoral system is a part of Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz’s (PML-N) manifesto and I had ordered the Speaker National Assembly to form an electoral reforms committee in June 2014”.
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The PTI’s lawyer Abdul Hafeez Pirzada in his arguments had alleged “lack of accountability, monitoring and proper delegation of authority within the ECP”. “We had also given a written commitment that if the commission said that the elections were rigged, the government would resign”, he added.
