ECP summons emergency meeting on rigging complaints

Meeting will also discuss reports from returning officers of Karachi NA-250 constituency.


Web Desk May 13, 2013
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.

 

COMMENTS (18)

Habib Ali Laghari | 11 years ago | Reply

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.

AK47 | 11 years ago | Reply

@A2Z: Absolutely right

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