ANP’s Aimal Wali rejects polls results

Awami National Party (ANP)’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) President Aimal Wali Khan has rejected the election results outright and announced a province-wide protest drive.

Addressing a press conference at Bacha Khan Markaz in Peshawar, Wali said that the party demands recounting of votes on all seats where ANP candidates remained runner-ups.

“These are the worst elections in the history of the province in terms of result manipulation. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won the elections but at the same time its important leaders lost their seats to the ‘result change’,” he said, adding that it was part of a conspiracy that ANP’s and PTI’s important leaders have been kept out of assemblies.

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He observed that the polls management started with the closure of mobile phone network across the country. “Let me tell you this is less election and more selection”.

“Those who managed to enter into a deal with the powerful quarters won despite their affiliation with PTI. And those within PTI who didn’t strike a deal lost out,” he alleged, adding that those in power want to have a ‘Balochistan-like’ government in K-P too.

“Even an Afghan national won from Hayatabad because he is acceptable to the establishment,” he said, adding that millions were demanded from the ANP candidates by ROs.

Wali said that only the establishment in this country is free and Pakistan’s debt is going up with each passing year.

He announced an end to the politics of non-violence.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12^th, 2024.