An NA-250 ballot box - photo being shared across social media.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) summoned an emergency meeting in Islamabad on Monday to assess complaints of rigging received from across the country, reported Express News.
The meeting will be headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, during which reports by districts returning officers and returning officers of Karachi NA-250 constituency will also be reviewed.
Several mainstream parties of the country have claimed that rigging took place on many seats affecting the election results.
Cell phone videos shot inside polling booths and pictures which revealed rigging also went viral on the internet.
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Rigging is being done all over the country specially in Karachi and interior Sindh in Dadu district PPP has done clear rigging that the On NA233 , 200000 votes has been cast and this area is countryside , and registered votes are only 70000, how the PPP candidate has taken 129000 votes, it means it is clear rigging.
@A2Z: Absolutely right
Why weren't CCTVs installed at each electoral booth? Why wasn't technology used in casting votes? We're living in 2013, not 1913!! Such evident rigging is being overlooked that it points to an internal involvement that goes deep. Why isn't the supreme court taking notice?!
It is not important what happened during the polling. It is what happened after the polling that matters; after 5PM. Who counted the votes? How can the ECP assure us that the counting process was clean?
@Farhan:
PTI still has more than double seats than your party MQM. So everyone knows who is washed out and who has just entered the scene
I am hoping each one of you has signed the electronic petition for re-elections is KHI that has been initiated on change.org and is going viral around the web...
For anyone who has missed out on it, here is the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/re-elections-of-karachi-re-election-by-ecp?utmcampaign=sharebuttonactionbox&utmmedium=facebook&utmsource=share_petition
The reason why Karachi is being highlighted is the fact that MQM won all the seats where as in Punjab N-League lost on a some very key positions like NA-56, NA-55. PP-11 and PP12 of Rawalpindi a strong hold of N-League.
These facts are a testimony that although there where issues in Punjab during the election day but nothing link what happened in Karachi.
with polling corruption in such enormous scale, noone ever able to think about Free and Fair elections. The nation shocked by the leve of rigging across the pakistan where random parties workers rushing in to manipulate ballot papers. It really was beyound the JOKE! Mr.Fakhruddin as a senior responsible person should arrange for a Re-election on rigged constituencies!
Why are you not mentioning NA. 122 and NA 125, Shame on you biased media
Burger babies cannot accept their defeat. Their delusional tsunami is washed away.
If you are the majority on facebook and twitter, does not mean that you are the majority in Pakistan.
Facebook "likes" and Twitter "retweets" do not count as votes.
It hurts, but it's true.
Yes re-election for entire Punjab & Sindh.. For me it was not FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS... ECP have to take some serious steps as it will be matter for 5 years.... At any cost we can't effort to have an incompetent and rigged govt.... ECP Please take SERIOUS ACTION...
Nearly all political parties boycotted elections in Karachi on some seats or on all. Massive rigging was done on NA 250 and it got reported and was in press because you have a very educated population there. International observers were shocked at scale of mismanagement (ala rigging) in some areas of Karachi Consider re-election in entire Karachi city. This will give credibility to the process
@Maher: Why only Karachi and Hyderabad. Why not entire Punjab ?
Unfortunately those who objected CEC Mr. Fakhruddin's appointment for the position on grounds of high age seem to be proving correct as EC is acting like a typical aged person who takes days in taking one single independent decision... :(
@maher Not just karachi there are reports of rigging in punjab as well.
Good, Fakhruddin saheb, plz plz give a thought for Re-Elections in entire Karachi & Hyderabad. If u will do this, ECP's and your credibility will increase..
Each and every minute inside the polling both should be recorded. Why camera is not allowed? Not allowing camera in polling both was also part of rigging
How the ECP could possibly say the elections were "free and fair" is beyond me or any sane Pakistani. No one is saying the 'tsunami' promised by the PTI failed to materialize -- it was never going to happen. But with such widespread and damning evidence of rigging all across the country, especially in Karachi and Hyderabad in constituencies that could not possibly have gone to any other party other than PTI, it is an absolute farce to proceed as if democracy has at last triumphantly returned. Are the people of Karachi not Pakistanis?!