Achakzai offers PkMAP platform to PTI to form govt

Announces Balochistan-wide protests against rigging

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Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Friday invited the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent winners to join his party and form the next federal government by electing party chairman Gohar Khan as prime minister.

Achakzai said in a statement that his party had been kept out of parliament because “they don't like our faces.” He added that he knew that the election results would not be announced in his favour, therefore, he did not bother to stay up the whole night.

PTI-backed independent candidates sprang a big surprise by taking the nearly 100 National Assembly seats in Thursday’s elections. The candidates contested the elections as independents because the party was denied its electoral symbol because of its intra-party election controversy.

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“Barrister Gohar and other independent candidates should join the PkMAP and become the prime minister,” said Achakzai, who himself was elected from Chaman-Killa Abdullah seat. We are out of parliament,” he added.

Alleging that election results had been tampered with, Achakzai stated that he had already understood that the results were not in his party’s favour, therefore, he did not bothered to stay up the previous night and wait for the election outcome.

“During the day we were winning on the national and provincial seats but in the night we lost, maybe they don't like our faces,” he said. “Some officers have taken millions of rupees from the candidates,” the PkMAP chief alleged. He announced protest against election rigging on Saturday (today).