“On August 11, I will unveil names of people involved in rigging during the May 11 elections,” he said.
Talking to the media in Islamabad, Imran said that since 1947, elections in Pakistan have been controversial but the 2013 elections were the worst-rigged in the history of Pakistan.
The PTI chief continued that initially he asked for recounting of polls in four constituencies. However, despite repeated requests, he said PTI's demands were not met.
Citing the example of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, Imran said that he could have adopted a similar strategy and not accepted the May 11 election results. However, he said owing to poor economic conditions and prevalence of terrorism in the country, PTI accepted the election results.
Imran said that he and his party knocked on every door for justice but since their demands were not met, he has to resort to sit-ins. The PTI chief said that the million-man march to Islamabad will be the biggest rally in the history of Pakistan.
Further, Imran said that the basic demand of their August 14 rally is re-elections as the mandate of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz is "fake" and they came to power through “fraudulent elections”.
“All I want is to fix the electoral system,” he said, adding that the party only wants to ensure free and fair elections are held in the future.
‘Azadi’ march
Talking about his ‘Azadi’ march, Imran said that it will be the biggest sit-in to be held in the history of Pakistan.
Referring to the invocation of Article 245 in the federal capital ahead of his march, Imran said, “we are glad that the government invoked Article 245, because the army will protect us”.
He warned the Punjab police and the government once again that if they take actions against his supporters or put him under house arrest, then the entire country will be paralysed.
“After 14 months of trying to find legal means we are finally exercising our democratic right to get on the streets and demand justice,” said Imran.
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IK, your end is near
@Sarmad, Ok so PTI walas dont trust election tribunals, You dont trust the sitting govt, you dont trust the election commission. You dont trust GEO. Who do you trust? Khakis? Now I have few questions:
1) Did you notice that once Geo vs Khakis issue has been settled, IK got completely silenced about GEO. Is it co-incidence?
2) Do you know that out of 268 contested seats, PTI just filed 58 petititons seeking review? What about the other 210.
Great let's forget war in waziristan and IDPs and let's walk to Islamabad. what has PTI done in KPK last 14 months? what has merited the federal government of PTI seeing progress in KPK? Imran you were a hero now you are like TUQ. sadly another disappointment for Pakistan. Same electoral process will give same results. Please understand IK.
@BILAL: "My mandate" - that's an oxymoron , my exuberant friend from PTI.
It's the mandate given by the country to pml n . Your beloved IK only got 35 odd seats - he's minuscule.
You should be constructive and encourage "great leader" to focus on doing something in KPK , so he can truly get a mandate next time.
IK has just revealed that the Care Taker Government was involved in rigging. On 11th he will announce the names of the care taker government officials and that's all.
I hope IK would be able to provide evidence. - Where did he get it from? - Why did he not disclose that previously? - Was the evidence presented to election tribunal? - Will the evidence be presented in courts or waving it infornt of TV cameras be adequate?
@Allah Daad
Dear it is his foot on the tail of PMLN. They tried to get rid for more than a year but couldn't. If elections were fair and you came in power fairly! what was harm in re-counting???? You have no answer for this.......
PMLN nowadays say that more than 70% cases have been disposed off by Election Tribunals. How can we trust Election Tribunals when we find out that they rejected Zubair Khan's petition against rigging in NA 256 even after NADRA report pointed put massive rigging.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/614719/57642-bogus-votes-cast-in-na-256-karachi-nadra-report/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/663541/na-256-tribunal-dismisses-ptis-rigging-plea/
I hope Qadri Sahib would be able to join the march as well. Without Qadri Sahib it could be difficult as PMLN has got lots of badmash's like Gullu Butt .......of whom we PTI supporters are very scared of as I have heard they do a lot more than just breaking cars.
I hope IK would be able to name the serving Brig who he previously said was involved in rigging
I dont like PMLN at all but i am not in agreement with the Politics of PTI as well. Independent observers from around the world termed the recent elections as the transparent ones compared to previous elections but Imran is not in agreement with it at all. ? How come Imran Khan will ever forget the Rigging of Ayub Khan in 1965 where Fatima Jinnah and others were not able to get even 1000 votes.?. Somebody should teach Imran Khan some history lessons first before he will jump to the conclusions that what is meant by the Worst Rigging in the history of Pakistan.
How I wished he would talk about development in KPK in his interviews and press conferences instead of this rhetoric. Khan fails to understand that he probably isn't the most popular leader in the country, largely because the majority lives in rural areas. Age is not on his side and he probably sees the chances of winning four years later pretty slim.
From Tsunami March to Azadi March and now Re-election demand. He knows if things go out of control, he would get nothing and if he backs off, TUQ will steal the show. There are too many feet on his tail.
If he had clinching evidence do you think he would have kept it under wraps for this long? This is just another ploy to gather crowds.
Love you man. please bring back my mandate i voted for PTI but turned out that no vote was cast for PTI at that polling station(Ayesha public school ZS road.) in NA-130 outskirts of Lahore.
where sohail shoukat but of N league rigged whole election day.