A file photo of PTI chief Imran Khan. PHOTO: REUTERS
Imran met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Raza to share his grievances related to the May 2013 elections.
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The PTI chief also asked the electoral body to introduce biometric system and minimise the possibility of rigging in the future.
Imran said two taskforces should be constituted to materialise these demands, which he later took to his Twitter account as well.
I asked the CEC to set up 2 task forces: One for electronic voting & other for working out how Overseas Pakistanis would be able to vote.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 2, 2015
Speaking about the results of NA-122, the PTI chief said forensic tests were conducted and the signatures of the returning officers were different than their original ones which clearly reflected that rigging had taken place in the constituency.
“One presiding officer had also signed forms of 20 polling stations,” he added.
2/2 Of these, 50 polling stations' Forms XIV & XV fake;20 polling stations' Form XVs signed by same person, proving results were tampered.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 2, 2015
Imran further told the media that he has asked the CEC to make sure that there are day-to-day hearings of the NA-122 case and that they are not adjourned in any case.
"The CEC should suspend the National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq if there is any delay in the hearing," Imran requested.
Imran also said the results of re-counting in NA-122 constituency would be announced later in February and if his rigging claims are proven wrong, he will accept his mistake before the nation.
"Independent election commission is our next goal for which the PTI would continue its struggle," the PTI chief added.
Our struggle is also for an independent ECP. All Parties have said that rigging took place in Sindh. Punjab & Balochistan.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 2, 2015
When asked about PTI’s future strategy in case a judicial commission is not constituted to probe his rigging claims, Imran said that we would come out on the streets again to protest.
Imran once again justified his party’s decision to participate in Senate elections from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa saying it was a legitimate assembly and no one had raised rigging allegations against it.
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@Ch. Allah Daad: your inference is somewhat astray, my father worked in the fields of cruel landlords and was whipped for his efforts, any assistance given to family and the mohallah is not to sponsor a lifestyle but for the prevention of despair and also to please the Almighty.
Khan Sahab even if overseas Pakistanis are given voting rights, still it won't make you PM because you have achieved your dharna goal = shadi mubarak. Khan Sahab you have proved to be the wrong number as well.
@Ranjha:
Brother my humble advise, keep the hard earned £ $ YEN Dirham Riyal to yourself and try looking for a shrink of notable repute.
@Zahir:
Your balderdash and piffle is as worthless as you. Badly brought up, half educated dimwits!
@Ch. Allah Daad:
I had suspected all along you were mentally challenged but your post above confirms it. Eintsten. we send £ $ YEN Dirham Riyal, not the junk piece of paper called a "Pakistani" rupee, thanks mostly to morons like you. The government keeps the foreign exchange to pay for illegal speaker's jaunts abroad and to pay international bills--they don;t take rupees for oil! And then it simply prints the equivalent in rupees and hands it to the poor suckers called "Pakistanis" in Pakistan.
IT is precisely half-educated dimwits like you that have brought this country to its knees. If the Pakistanis stop sending money, you will have to wash your dirty dhotis yourself and work in the sugarcane fields instead of typing away gibberish sitting in your house whiling away time!
What a complete crock.....so much for being thankful. Typical monstrous Naan League brain dead attitude. Ask your Ishaq Daarth Vader to put a ban on foreign exchange if it is so bad!
Overseas Pakistanis should learn to live on the land they are given new home.Imran Khan should tell them to be loyal to their system .
@Ranjha: @zaman: First, you don't send money to the country, you send it to your families. Government uses it until its spent by the recipient. How many families have been destroyed by this easy money is beyond comprehension. Few decades back when very few Pakistanis had settled abroad, Pakistan was much better economically, socially and morally than today. Those young people who dropped out of school were forced to work in fields, shops and factories. Now young men, even from working classes don't work. Visit any village of Pakistan and you will not find any young man from agricultural family working in fields. Whole day they just chill on motorbikes and on cars and finally end up in hospitals, police stations and jails. Two Reasons. Easy money got from their expatriate fathers, brothers, uncles and other relatives or by selling their family property esp. agricultural land to land mafias. Your family may be an exception and many expatriate Pakistanis help their families in good faith but their hard earned money is destroying them.
@Ch. Allah Daad: Whilst the weakest of soceity may leave Pakistan, and try to milk the benefits system or justice systems abroad, they are using their survival instincts honed in a country where the system benefits the "chosen" few and generally expatriates will still help their country men even at the risk of getting stung themselves, and most of the times they are educated past the metric level.
As for expatriates of 2nd or 3rd generations, education levels are at the least past the college diploma levels and there may be degree holders within each family, we have worked hard and contributed to the society at economic and social levels.
Whilst we struggled during our First generation, we did not forget our peoples back home our obligations to family/families and the mohallah, this trend is continued to this day.
Many a social or welfare facilities have been set up by dual or oversea's nationals benefiting our peoples.
Sir, therefore, do not be an adversary; For our blood is tied to our Homeland in more ways than one since 1947.
@ Ranjha goof, message was so clear, read again what I posted, if still daft, then stop using English dictionary and dont get embarrassed reading something typed in urdu.
@bilal:
i would prefer to be a monkey as opposed to be a Noora or a piplya supporter
I feel that your wish has already been fulfilled. What are you complaining about?
@Zahir:
So, my investment bank shift is up! What was your question, imbecile?
@Ranjha: Please dont make this personal but try to listen to the facts. Bilawal is a overseas Pakistani. Do you think he understands our problems on the ground? If so why do children die of thirst in Thar?. Should he be even allowed to run for politics? Similarly Imran's kids go to Temple services in London and dont even know reality (Ok they may understand dharnas). Should they be allowed to vote in my life? You are a good expat Pakistani so you send 100's of thousands home. Good. Get an official remittance card and vote (no tax either). that is my argument @Ali.sahb: Please be mature. We have real problems in Pakistan
Gpd ... i would prefer to be a monkey as opposed to be a Noora or a piplya supporter.... Mind bogging corrupt mentality of Adnan and Ch. Daad. Perfect hypocrites.
Allah ... make me a money but do not make me Noora or a piplya supporter... Aamin
The government can introduce biometric system at the time of purchasing a SIM card after thousands of innocent people have been killed in suicide and other bomb blasts but will never allow biometric system, nor to overseas Pakistanis to elect representatives of the National and Provincials Assemblies.
The best course of action is that Overseas Pakistanis should get themselves registered with the election commission and should reach at the place where they are registered as voters to cast their votes on Election Day.
This will also increase the business of PIA and it can operate extra flights to bring in the voters to cast their votes on Election Day.
What about voting rights for Pakistanis (Ahmadi Muslims) living in Pakistan?
@zaman:
Dear Sir, discussing the contents of this article or for that matter discussing anything related to Niazi is a waste of time.
Overseas Pakistanis should focus on real problems which they are facing abroad. Taking part in Pakistani politics is not going to give any benefit to them. First of all they have to stop tarnishing Pakistan's image abroad and secondly they should take part in local politics without which they cannot strengthen their own community. Living in another country, getting all kinds of benefits from them but not contributing to their societies is a very bad thing to do. Pakistanis communities abroad are weakest, poorest, most illiterate and most divided. How can they build Pakistan when they could not build themselves.
There is plenty of ignorance displayed on these comments pages. I support IK's call for a right to vote for overseas Pakistanis. The only clause i'd have is they must be a Pakistani passport holder. I have no problems with them being dual nationals, afterall you must remember why these people are overseas in the first place, most of us and our parents didn't leave to "study in Amreeka" or get "top jobs in London", people left because it was an opportunity to escape starvation.
AJK would be as poor as Thar or Baluchistan if it wasn't for expat money, a lot of Northern Punjab wouldn't be any better. Those who moved to Europe or North America are lucky that they were treated as Human beings by the people some amongst us call Kafir, whilst our Muslim brothers treat it's migrant workers worse than animals.
Overseas Pakistani's are loyal to Pakistan and very interested in it's betterment. Many have grown old and died abroad, hoping for one day to have conditions where they could earn a halal living at home and live a life of peace.
Anyone who fails to see how someone can be loyal to more than 1 country really ought to be stripped of the right to vote themselves. If a person cannot understand something as simple as human relationships and loyalties, then they cannot be of sound mind. How many of us are sons and husbands? Can you love both your wife and your mother? It's a simple relationship, the same can be said of being a dual national.
@Zahir: We are habitual of that dimwit s' silly comments, imran has never been in power, we will criticize rather burst him if he would get win but does nothing, wait
Voting rights for overseas Pakistani is an excellent suggestion. If approved electoral system would be counting votes from least honest and truly without prejudice basis from us.
@PTI Workers United: are you the leader of the "PTI workers United", hoe can you title your self like this in a anonymous comment, u sound lika a lifafa commentator...
@Shuaib: all one needs to know is that things are not working in Pakistan or the system is failing the people very badly indeed, NAP,for example or has the system gone for a NAP, before the government forms it's next committee.
@Khan Jr.: Israel has dual nationals who have voting rights in Israel, I would go further with one or two years of national service included.
Pakistan's expatriatess visit their homeland on a regular basis, contributing to it's stalling economy, assisting needy people in their neighbourhoods and have a deep understanding of the woes of the peoples.
@Adnan Siddiqi: you are name calling ;. you're not discussing the article.
NawaZardari both in collusion are depriving overseas Pakistanis of their voting rights just like they have kept Pakistanis deprived of their constitutional right of having elected local governments.
@PTI Workers United:
Einstein, I am an Overseas Pakistani. I send tens of lakh rupees in foreign exchange remittances which help keep our broke country afloat. If it were not for us, your ilk will be sitting in Thar bathing the Saudi's falcons in butter to earn a living--the whole country will roll over without these earnings.
And which rural "problems" we "urban" Pakistanis don't understand? Poverty? illiteracy? floods? famine? superstition? ignorance? lack of jobs? water issues? police brutality? We KNOW each and every one of these issues much more than pathetic darbaris do and help our crushed countrymen more than any "son of the soil" does.
People like you can't even get a job --pathetically qualified, badly brought up, insular, dishonest-- so depend on this corrupt system to milk to gain power and grab money. You FEAR overseas Pakistanis because you know they are far better than you are and will kick the living daylights out of you if put in the corridors of power! That is the reason for one bogus excuse after another that you offsprings of Machiavelli keep throwing at this demand!
He should ask for the vote for overseas pakistani tax payers only. Why should an outsider have any say in affairs of Pakistan unless he pays his taxes to his country?? Surely after criticizing NS on taxes that is the least Imran will agree to? Let me illustrate. If imrans sons studied in Peshawar maybe he would not be booed by the parents when he visits Army Public school there. But when they stud at eton in UK they do not know the problems of our country. Same with Bilawal for that matter. Similarly foreign pakistanis do not know our rural problems. At best they know the urban ones.
@Ranjha, When you finish your shift, give a little deep thought about what Adnan Siddiqi said. "If I'm with Imran Niazi so(100) khoon maaf". Well done Adnan.
@Legal joker: If dual nationals can vote in the UK elections why can they not vote in Pakistan's elections - a country where most of them have spent half their lives and is run by their remittances. UK does not bar them from casting a vote just because they hold Pakistani nationality as well. your name doesn't defy your mental calibre
This shouldn't be supported. Foreign Pakistanis who know NOTHING about the situation or how things work in Pakistan have NO right to dictate how things should be in Pakistan.
@Adnan Siddiqi:
Your pathetic masters only want overseas Pakistanis to keep sending the dosh and shut up and let them have a party at their expense!
What a wretched lot!
ordinary Joes talk about issues.
Yes, and ordinary darbaris always sing the glories of their corrupt, dishonest, wretched masters. Well done!
No representation without taxation.
Imran Khan kindly state that you want the rights for Muslim Foreign Pakistanis since According to the Constitution of Pakistan even the local Non Muslims are not allowed to select their candidates on MNA seats and minorities like Ahmedis are not allowed to vote in Pakistan. What type of Hypo critic country we are ?. Imran Khan minorities of Pakistan want to vote you as well but they dont have the right to do so. Kindly do something and increase your vote base.
What Mr. Niazi does not understand is that ordinary Joes talk about issues. Politicians do not talk out in the open but engage in debates and develop consensus inside the parliament.
Only Pakistani Nationals should be allowed to take part in Pakistani Elections. How can those who have taken "oath" to support aliens (foreign lands & governments) be allowed to decide nations future?
The most amusing piece in this news is "Dr." Babar Awan, the self proclaimed right hand man of Zardari and an epitome of "Status Quo" being part of this revolutionary entourage. People so elegantly forget that this guy not only got his Phd. degree declared bogus by HEC but he also at one point of time used to travel around different lawyer bars of the country with suitcases full of unaccounted state money which he doled out to "like minded" lawyers opposing the restoration of the judiciary and CJ Chaudhry.
Any how, Babar Awan has finally arrived where sycophantic and carpetbagging characters such as him really feel at home - in company of Imran Khan.
Does he mean Overseas Pakistanis only or Duals Nationals - IK/PTI should be more specific. The Dual Nationals should be allowed to vote only if they are allowed to contest elections. It is bizarre that a Dual National can not seek a Public Office/contest elections but they can be a Government employee or even a Judge/Armed Forces member.
@Khan Jr.: I think voting rights will only be given to Pakistani passport holders. Anybody who gives up Pakistani nationality will have no voting rights.
Two demands were made; right to overseas pakistanis and biometric election. During the recent visit of Imran Khan we have discussed with him. Thank you Khan sahib.
Overseas Pakistanis should be able to vote provided they don't hold dual or foreign nationality. It would be nonsensical to allow such people to vote considering dual or foreign nationals cannot be elected to the.Senate or the National or principal assemblies.
It's a very good demand and to make it even better PTI must take the lead and ensure that overseas PTI members get voting rights in Intra Party Elections (IPE). At least overseas PTI members must get voting rights to elect OIC leadership.
i don't think NS or this corrupt system will alow us to vote as an overseas Pakistani or introduce biometric voting system because they know that we are here only because of dhandli