Pakistan

Gandapur visited DI Khan polling station to prevent rigging: Imran

Says there can be re-election division by division and under Army's supervision

Web Desk June 05, 2015

Chairman PTI Imran Khan talks to media persons outside Supreme Court. PHOTO: ONLINE

ISLAMABAD: Rejecting claims that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Revenue Minister Ali Ameen Gandapur committed electoral fraud at a DI Khan polling station, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said the minister went there to prevent rigging and is being politically victimised.

The minister is accused of barging into the polling station on May 31 with his guards, manhandling staff and policemen and forcibly taking away ballot boxes. The Cantt SHO registered an FIR against him and Gandapur was taken into custody on Monday after he reportedly “handed himself to the police”.

He was presented in court and sent on a one-day remand. Subsequently, on Wednesday, Gandapur was granted bail for the two separate cases registered against him.

Read: Election misconduct: PPP vows to take up Gandapur’s actions with ECP

Addressing the media in Islamabad Friday, Imran urged political parties to come forward to have a "re-election" if they believed rigging took place in the recent by-elections.

"I am telling the opposition to come and have a re-match, but I think they are afraid," he said.

He assured that his party were open to a re-run of the elections and said that "they should come forward and together we can go to the Election Commission of Pakistan."

"If they still think elections were not conducted properly, let's do it again. Let's do it division by division and under Army supervision," he concluded.

Read: PTI's Ali Amin Gandapur granted bail

The statement comes two days after MPA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Minister Ali Amin Gandapur was released on bail following a one-day remand for allegedly forcibly taking away ballot boxes from a polling station on Sunday.

According to the DI Khan police, vote count was under way in Hemath Adda polling station in the morning when the lawmaker, accompanied by his brother Umar Amin Gandapur, a candidate for tehsil nazim, and his armed supporters arrived, picked up the ballot boxes and began putting them in the minister’s car.

The MPA was granted bail on June 3 after being held by police on a one-day remand.

COMMENTS (24)

FJ | 9 years ago | Reply This is unbelievable. I was disappointed to see IK defend Murad Saeed's degree controversy, I am shocked to see him defend the inexcusable action of Ali Amin Gandapur. Grow up IK.

Amjed Jaaved | 9 years ago | Reply IK!Congrat! Through your Gandapur comment, you have upgraded yourself from a liar to laughing stock.

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SMA Chani | 9 years ago | Reply It is sad to read vulgar comments against IKN and others. I think it is improper and one should refrain from making rude and insulting comments against people let alone leaders who have followings. I agree we need to point out people of dubious characters but it aught to be done properly within the limit of decency. I pray and hope we all work for the good of humanity. May Allah giide us all our brothers and sisters.

Joker Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Nobody needs to make fun of Imran Khan Niazi. This joker is fully capable of making fun of himself. The sad story is that by the end of the drama, he will leave his numerous naive followers dejected and in tears.

Ranjha | 9 years ago | Reply @H Chaudhry: I certainly and PMLN for sure dont care about KPK LB polls Sure, you only care about Punjab where the loot and plunder happens under your watch and you daddy brimngs home the fruits of his "labour". Only a patriot will care about other provinces and what happens there, not a Naan eating darbari! I am not surprised at all.

raider | 9 years ago | Reply @Adnan Siddiqi: copied earler posted by some one as you always copy English dictionary to get attention of readers

raider | 9 years ago | Reply @H Chaudhry: you look spokes person of pmln, all industrialist and thugs amassed in this n league party for their vested interests and to harvest patronage for their future generations to get them remain relevant in this nasty politics that ends up in fraudulent regime of democracy, if you don't care kpk or imran khan why that guy has been nightmare for all pmln and peoples like you pleading here at ET and paying deaf ear to their money laundering and plundering, and long period of incumbency at federal and Punjab level with zero performance, loot sale of thandarship and tehsildarships had been bad experience with this outcome of dictators, purchase finance minster-ship from gen. gilani and then purchase chief minstership from general aslim bag is summed up politics of these illiterates and agencies were hand in glove with these thugs to hijack important posts to be elected by public, they all should be behind the bars to serve the justice in real terms

H Chaudhry | 9 years ago | Reply @Ranjha I certainly and PMLN for sure dont care about KPK LB polls. PMLN very easily managed to keep its areas intact. PMLN is just pointing out the Uturns in Imran's statements when it comes to Why Saad Rafique was in polling station vs why Gandapur or its ECP fault now but its PMLN's fault in 2013. All the crap will come to haunt Imran very soon. If you actually look in to details on LB polls, ANP that has completely lost in 2013 has now re-emerged to take heavy victories in Charsada etc. Look at micro picture, things are not as good for Imran/PTI as they think. They better get their act together and again PMLN do not care about PTI in KPK and is just pointing towards obvious Uturns.

Ranjha | 9 years ago | Reply @OBSERVER: @MASOOM: @Adnan Siddiqi: @Lakhkar Khan: @H Chaudhry: Don't want another election? Then shut your tripe and accept the results. Typical Naan munching darbaris out there mouthing gibberish again. Ask the "democrats" in ANP or the rocket fuel drinkers in JUI to decide which way they want to go. Say yes or no, don't be an "in between"

Adnan Siddiqi | 9 years ago | Reply @H Chaudhry: Niazi is free to offload the ill gotten wealth of freeloaders like JKT and Azam Swati on this inane exercise of re-elections. It's time that people of KPK realize that they have been massively duped and they should now rise to throw this joke of a government out of power before KPK becomes a pariah province of Pakistan. Pervaiz Khattak looked like Gobbels sitting in front of the Nuremberg Commission yesterday at the convention center.

H Chaudhry | 9 years ago | Reply Lets play election election! This is not a game Imran. Billions spend on elections are not free money. You did conduct LB polls and you FAILED. Time to accept the failure and try to fix the system instead of lets do elections again. Try to move forward. Try to accept your failures. You will be destroyed by other parties marketing in 2018 by using your own twisted logics and uturn.

Lakhkar Khan | 9 years ago | Reply @Adnan Siddiqi: Could not agree more. In my opinion, Imran "Khan" is power hungry, selfish, arrogant, ally of Taliban terrorists and a fraud. He is using Pakistanis for his selfish political cause by giving them false hopes. He is the same as the rest of Pakistani politicians, or maybe worse, with just a different slogan. After all, PTI is nothing but the party of empty slogans.

Adnan Siddiqi | 9 years ago | Reply The genocide and organized terror that was invoked in KPK on 30th May by the political arm of TTP and Daish is reminiscent of Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives." May allah have mercy on the people of KPK because we fear that KPK would be subjected to further cruelty by the sadistic Imran Niazi for PTI's spectacular failure and dwindling support in the LB polls.

Adnan Siddiqi | 9 years ago | Reply @Ranjha: Welcome back! I am sure that the rock you were hiding under must be feeling really relieved to have let go of your stinking company. I am content at being a darbari just like you are over the moon at the murder of 22 innocent souls in KPK and going out of your way to lick the boot of that mindless Niazi who does not know his head from his backside. Speaking of courage, why hasn't Niazi cared to attend those countless sessions of National Assembly after that epic lesson in morality by Khawaja Asif?

MASOOM | 9 years ago | Reply Innocent people of pakistan are unable to understand the difference between PIOUS PTI and OTHER CORRUPT political parties .workers of PTI even apparently doing corruption,murder and dahndlee actually they are doing for building NAYA PAKISTAN ! plz let they should do it .this is just like surgery where surgeon playing with knife for betterment of patient .IK the great leader explaining same to people about GHANDAPUR ACTION OF TAKING BALLOTBOX in his car to stop rigging !

OBSERVER | 9 years ago | Reply what a joke? another u- turn..he is arrogant and aristocratic leader just like he was cricket captain..after winning the world cup..he said.In his speech at the trophy presentation ceremony, Khan didn’t mention his teammates, instead choosing the moment to say he hoped to build a cancer hospital.“I would also like to say that I feel very proud that in the twilight of my career finally I have managed to win the World Cup,” ..It was team work not individual achievement..

Ranjha | 9 years ago | Reply Politics without smartness is untenable my friend. Had courage been a prerequisite, “Crocodile Hunter” Late Steve Irwin would have been the most courageous politicians of all. By the same token, courage is what sets a man apart from a spineless reptile. If darbaris like you had any, you would not have to resort to boot licking of the Butt Brothers to earn a living!

Blithe | 9 years ago | Reply Imran khan Niazi is a miscreant himself Who has attacked the police station in the past, lead his rabble to attack PTV and Parliament, align himself with a violent cleric , etc. Why do we expect him to be impartial here?

Ch. Allah Daad | 9 years ago | Reply For Imran, loss of two dozen lives and expenses of billions is just a cricket match. His own personal glory depends on blood and destruction of economy.

Adnan Siddiqi | 9 years ago | Reply @JD: His smartness is debatable but his courage… second to none. Politics without smartness is untenable my friend. Had courage been a prerequisite, "Crocodile Hunter" Late Steve Irwin would have been the most courageous politicians of all.

raider | 9 years ago | Reply if he cant do in one match, he won’t do in other most foolish comments of the century, even a naive would not agree with it

Im the Dim | 9 years ago | Reply @JD: Why does Imran not just demand justice for those who rigged the KPK polls and send people like Gandapur to Jail? Why cant he just admit that PTI cannot have free and fair elections in KPK as his party is full of people from other corrupt parties now? Why doesn't he have a re match with Sita White in US Courts? Is he scared of that Zina being proven?

JD | 9 years ago | Reply Honestly, leaders of all the Pakistani political parties combined do not have the guts, confidence and bravery of IK. His smartness is debatable but his courage... second to none.

Evin Jackson | 9 years ago | Reply this guy seems mad... always looking for re-match. why cant he play one proper match instead of so many.. if he cant do in one match, he won't do in other

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