Rigging allegations: Verdict on election petitions today

LAHORE: The Election Tribunals hearing petitions about allegations of rigging in NA-125 and PP-155 during the general elections of 2013 will announce their decisions on Monday (today). Counsel for petitioner Hamid Khan, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf senior leader, had concluded his arguments in the earlier hearing of his petition accusing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Khwaja Saad Rafique of having rigged the general election in NA-125. The tribunal had then adjourned the hearing and said that the decision would be announced on Monday (today). The petition alleging rigging in PP-155 had been filed by Hafiz Farhat Abbas of the PTI. Mian Naseer of the PML-N had been declared winner in the constituency in the 2013 election by the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 4^th, 2015.