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MQM Pakistan cries foul play in Karachi elections

MQM Pakistan cries foul play in Karachi elections

*KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Faisal Sabzwarion Wednesday expressed apprehensions on the results of general elections2018 saying that the results were being written on plain paper rather thanForm 45, ARY News reported.*

“Polling agents of about four to five constituencies have complained ofirregularities,” he said while talking to media amid announcements ofunconfirmed and unofficial results of different polling stations.

Faisal said his party was told that verified results could not be given.

“Deputy Returning Officers and Presiding Officers are refusing to giveofficial results on Form 45 as per ECP rules in NA-253, NA-256, NA-226,NA-227, NA-239. Officials have thrown out our polling agents from differentpolling stations of NA-243 and NA-249,” he wrote on his Twitter account.

He said they reserved the right to stage sit-in protest on the pollingstations where polling officials would not give result on Form 45.

The MQM-P leader also declared delimitation as a result of provisionalcensus as pre-poll rigging.

Another MQM-P leader Syed Ali Raza Abidi said, “Getting reports of variouspolling stations in NA-243 where MQM’s polling agents are being removedfrom polling stations and not given the Form 14. ECP take note of this socalled ‘transparent elections’.”