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‘Pre-poll rigging’: PML-N urges election body to act against PPP

PML-N Senator Tariq Azim urged the CEC to 'save the national exchequer from becoming PPP’s election war chest'.

Our Correspondent January 07, 2013

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PML-N Senator Tariq Azim urged the CEC to 'save the national exchequer from becoming PPP’s election war chest'. PHOTO: APP/FILE

LAHORE:

A senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has urged the chief election commissioner (CEC) to take notice of “pre-poll rigging” by the ruling coalition.

Only weeks before the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is hiring loyalists on important government posts that could influence election results, PML-N Senator Tariq Azim said in a statement on Sunday.

He urged the CEC to “save the national exchequer from becoming PPP’s election war chest”.

Senator Azeem pointed out that the prime minister’s discretionary fund had been increased to Rs37 billion by slashing funding from crucial national projects like Basha Dam. Using development funds for PPP’s election campaign through the prime minister is blatant pre-poll rigging, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 7^th, 2013.