“Imran Khan made the PTI and he is now destroying it”, he said.
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“I will record my reaction tomorrow after going through the report“, a numb looking Khan said.
In its 237-page report, the GEIC said that despite some lapses on part of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the 2013 general elections were in large part organised and conducted fairly and in accordance with law.
“But PTI was the only political party which fought the case against alleged rigging“, claimed the PTI chief.
The prime minister will go on the air at seven in the evening after being been briefed by his legal team on the report and the address will be broadcast live by the state broadcaster Pakistan Television, it was officially announced.
The three-judge body, headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, completed the hearing on July 3 after 39 sittings. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing the nation hours after the report was presented to him, said the report of the Judicial Commission is not only an endorsement of the government’s point of view on the issue of electoral rigging but also authentication of the people’s mandate.
The report was released last night but has yet to be handed over to PTI.
The protests flared into clashes with police and destabilised Sharif’s government last August, briefly sparking frenzied rumours of an impending military coup.
PTI had staged a 126-day sit-in protest near the parliament in Islamabad demanding judicial investigation into what it called massive rigging of 2013 polls.
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Local and foreign observers said the 2013 polls were credible, and some analysts believe the demonstrations were coordinated by the powerful army as a means of reasserting its dominance over civilian authorities.
