Altering poll results spells disaster: Gohar

Acting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan asserted on Wednesday his party’s right to form governments at the Centre as well as in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and demanded the announcement of the election results in accordance with the Form 45.

In a statement, Khan stressed that the future of Pakistan was linked to the supremacy of the Constitution and the utmost respect for democratic values. He warned that degrading the relationship between the state and the people, would not benefit the country in anyway.

“The Constitution entrusts the ownership of authority to the people, who exercise this authority through their elected representatives. By degrading this sacred relationship between the state and the people, it is futile to expect any good for us as a state,” he said.

“History is witness whenever there was an attempt to run the state without the Constitution and democracy, the country was engulfed in crises. The situation we are in as a state today requires us to be very serious and smart,” he added.

Khan said that PTI founder Imran Khan was unjustly imprisoned in false, fabricated and fake cases, the PTI’s electoral symbol of ‘bat’ was taken away, it was not allowed to run election campaign and every possible effort was made to throw it out of the election race by flouting the Constitution and the law.

In spite of all tactics, Khan continued, a clear and decisive public mandate was entrusted in the PTI. He warned that the move to forcibly change the election majority into a minority through manipulation of the results was a recipe for disaster.

Barrister Gohar demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that the election results should be released immediately in accordance with the of Form 45 and return the seats taken away from the PTI and the party should be given the right to form governments in K-P, Punjab and the Centre.