Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Barrister Gohar Khan has demanded that Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja immediately resign, saying that the CEC failed to hold elections in a free, fair and transparent manner.
“After meeting Khan sahib today, the PTI demands that the CEC resign, he has no right to stay in the position for a single day,” Barrister Gohar Khan said at a media talk outside Adiala Jail.
He demanded that all the inquiries into poll discrepancies should be impartial and without any interference. “We want the election results to be in accordance with the mandate of the public,” Gohar added.
Barrister Gohar Khan has warned that the International Monetary Fund programme would be “damaged” if the poll results were not in accordance with Form 45s.
He said Pakistan could not afford further political turmoil and demanded that the same could only be prevented by the announcement of “free poll results”.
Gohar Khan has called former Rawalpindi commissioner Liaqat Ali Chattha a “whistleblower” who unveiled details about “poll rigging”.
“We demand that his life and his children’s security must be ensured so that he can take part in any inquiry,” he said.
Last week, Chattha had accused the Election Commission of Pakistan and Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of involvement in the “rigging” — a claim denied by the electoral watchdog and the top judge.
PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan says the Election Commission of Pakistan failed to fulfil its responsibility in “every step of the way”.
At a press conference in Islamabad, he said Form 45s were the ECP’s responsibility and the returning officers were bound to announce results according to these documents.
