Photo of a ballot box that went viral on social media.
Muttahida Quami Movement’s (MQM) candidate Iqbal Muhammad Khan had won the constituency.
Zubair has requested for investigation at 66 polling stations of the constituency.
The hearing of the case will take place on November 9 and the returning officers will also be summoned to court for failing to provide the voter lists of 10 polling stations.
Rigging in NA-256 constituency
The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) had earlier unearthed massive rigging in the National Assembly constituency, NA-256 (Karachi), in the May 11 elections.
According to a report submitted by the authority before an election tribunal on October 7, over 57,000 votes could not be verified in the constituency where 5,893 duplicate and 1,950 fake votes were cast.
According to Nadra invalid Computerised National Identity Cards were mentioned on 11,343 used counterfoils, while 791 voted were found to be out of the constituency.
PTI's stance
On October 8, PTI’s chairman Imran Khan during a press conference in Lahore had said that “record rigging” took place in the May 11 elections in the NA-256 constituency. He had expressed fear that the by-elections would see similar rigging if action was not taken.
He had further said that the people involved, including the returning officers, should be held accountable for what they have done.
MQM’s stance
MQM has maintained that there is a difference between an “unverified vote” and a “fake vote”, and it was not the party’s responsibility to ensure that the ballot papers during the general elections were of good quality or that magnetic ink was used for thumb impressions.
MQM leader Faisal Subzwari had said that votes could not be verified in other constituencies as well, but only the one where an MQM candidate won was highlighted.
Correction: In an earlier version of this article, NA-256 was incorrectly mention as NA-265 once. The error has been fixed.
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@Sophya Khan: lol. No, I never said "I was a PTI supporter" - I am a PTI supporter, have been since 1997. You should read twice before you start blowing the flame thrower on me. I am already cooked by the GST hikes and power tariffs. This is what I said, lol : "I, being a PTI voter, would really like to see Faisal Subzwari go down. " You have highlighted the evident problems with MQM: "ghundagardi and telephonic khitaabs" But you must understand that the party, like most of the other political parties, has lost the true spirit it was constituted upon. Supporting them would be a blatant misinformed concurrence of the vile actions they reek through the city like extortion and terrorism. It is imperative that we align to Pakistan rather than parties, because nearly all parties have let us down, MQM is no different: Ask the ones who have to pay extortion money monthly just so that can run a factory doing 100% legit business. Lastly, the MQM leader doesn't come back to Pakistan because there are 200+ murder cases against him registered, just pause and think. If he were a true man of his word, he would have come down here to tackle the government regarding its policies. No sir, London phone khitaab zindabad. A circumlocution to a rat. Nothing more.
@The Failed Rebel: this is the best you can come up with? this is the 4th point in the PMLN manual for anti-PTI comments... "I was a PTI Supporter..." no you never were a PTI supporter sir, and to Sabzwari saab, dear sir, unverified votes is one thing, but lets talk about verified votes. one person casting 35 votes... what you say to this? the difference between counterfoils and the ballots? NADRA is only revealing the obvious... everybody knows you people do it but please do it with care, like on 11 May, Nabil Gabol's const results: 178000 votes total, Gabol got 170000 and the result is out like just 2 hours after the closing time! but that is not all, Gabol could not visit his const Lyari in his 5 years term with PPP and he cannot visit Lyari even after getting such a heavy mandate... really? who voted for him if he is afraid to face his const people?
In my opinion, MQM is still much much better than PPP and PMLN and JUIF but the only problem is they do not want to be a national party instead of ethnic and the second and most important reason is the ghundagardi and telephonic khitaabs..get rid of these problems, and nobody can stop you from sweeping the whole country
@catWomen!: Everyone is rigging nowadays, it's the new cool. Come to Punjab. Pre-mark ballot papers came to polling stations. My people, make no mistake, the slaves that came to power after elections were not chosen by you, they are chosen by foreign lobbies to increase the slavery and deficit in the country. So far most of the massive policies by the government have been anti-people, this is what IMF policies are designed to do. Congregate wealth into few hands. Open your eyes people, party alliances mean nothing. PTI, PML-N, PPP cannot stand against us if we walk under the green and white flag. The only ones worried then would be the real perpetrators.
@Muhammad: Could you stop this nonsense of Punjab this and that. Also PTI is not an angel and if you want to hate Punjab then keep on hating. Also I live in South Punjab and in my view it is the fault of People of South Punjab where they worship Peer and Jageedar and as long as they will live in denial they will remain deprived .
@catWomen!: Even if its true why not you accept the demand of Imran khan ,who requested finger prints of 4constituencies of punjab.Will see how much PML-N do the rigging.why you were so afraid,if they are clear and have done nothing
It looks funny and strange why only Karachi is targeted.On the otherside,PTI candidates in Punjab were more rich e.g Jangir Tareen ,He is ready to give money to election commision and no one is bothered his remarks and compeletly rejected his requests.This looks like that there is somethinf fishy fishy and after that ,they will open KPK constituencies to tried to prove such faults their and later on malign PTI .I am 100%sure Punjab constituncies will never be open and thats the reason why other provinces were so against this federation.If today south Punjab is separated from the Punjab and give it the status of New province.I am 100%sure the precent punjab which utilizez the whole punjab budget and 50%pakistan budget will left only Nawaz sharif and their Palaces.This is the reason why people of other provinces feel so much distress from the present status of Punjab.Wake up Pakistan.
@tariq: You really sound funny man, you have come up with a new ideology and contradicted yourself in the last line of your comments where you had to explain what is "APML (Pervez Musharaf's Party)" so this explanation from your side that what APML is, speaks for itself that nobody even knows what APML is. lolzz you just cracked us up lol.
As much as I despise MQM and Altaf and his anti-Pakistani stance, I agree with: "MQM leader Faisal Subzwari had said that votes could not be verified in other constituencies as well, but only the one where an MQM candidate won was highlighted." I, being a PTI voter, would really like to see Faisal Subzwari go down. However, everyone should be treated equally, PML-N has also been involved in massive rigging, justice should be equal for all. PTI, PML-N, MQM, PPP alike. If a PTI candidate has rigged he/she should also be taken to court. Exceptions and black sheep have brought my country to this terrible turn. I hope my people rise in a revolution against all political, economic and military monarchies, under the green and white flag and not a party. I don't think we will last for another 5 years under the present government. My people wake up! This inflation and taxation hikes will not stop here, why don't you see lack of vision of the current ruling party? They will keep pressing the lower and middle class. Sooner of later, 100K will not be equivalent to 10K. Wake up now, or your kin will suffer for your laziness.
hahahaha,they believe that they were winning all the karachi seats.Actually calling for thumb verification is to hidding its failure in karachi.It will take centuries for PTI to gain reasonable votes in karachi.Flocks who were about to vote APML supported PTI in election 2013 due to the boycott of election by APML.The mandate PTI got is the beholden of APML(Pervez Musharaf's Party)
The first paragraph of the sub-heading "Rigging in NA-256 constituency" states NA-265 which is incorrect. Please correct it to NA-256.
Because only MQM does rigging on such huge scale!!!