Addressing a press conference PTI President Ejaz ch said that the election tribunal had ordered the ECP to allow to full thumb verification of NA-118 result as petitioned by the PTI Candidate Hamid Zaman. He said that the PTI had accepted that the govt. must go on but rejected the election result due to rampant rigging. He said in the 9 months what PTI has said come true as nearly every month one election result was being challenged and on some reason or the other it was evident that the election process was full of flaws making many results dubious. He said that the after a long struggle the famous NA-118 seat had been allow for thumb verification and he hoped that this thumb verification would now take place in a free fair and transparent manner. He said that it was this 118 constituency due to which the govt. had removed NADRA Chairman Tariq Malik when he was about to do the thumb verification exercise for NA-118. He said that the govt. had threatened him and his family because they were afraid that on thumb verification NA-118 would prove to be total fraud and will expose the whole massive rigging on PML-N rigging in the elections. He demanded that the govt. carry out this verification without exerting political influence as the acting chairman of NADRA was appointed to safe guard the PML-N interest. He said that the election rigging had also been exposed by FAFEN report which clearly pointed out that 35 consistencies were completely invalid while most of the constituency had problems of wrong ballad papers wrong forms and wrong results.
Hamid Zaman PTI candidate for NA-118 said that this is the struggle for justice for common man vote or PTI know that if the system, is not challenged and govt. not pressurize to change it the people of this country will never be able to find those whom have they given vote and elected represented. He said that it was imperative that the govt. carry out this process of thumb verification with full integrity as it would become impossible for the people of this country to keep on coming out to vote knowing that there vote is going to be stolen and replaced.
Andleebb Abas Information Sec said that the recent PP-136 elections were declared null and void on the basis of most of the votes being either faked or unsigned or having thumb impressions which were not seeable she said that the ECP has ordered re-polling of PP-136 on this basis. She said that for NA-118 PTI is looking towards the same process of thorough checking and rechecking so that the truth of the matter is out and the people of Pakistan know that the fight for their vote continue she want the govt. that if this process is not carried out in an unbiased or fair manner PTI would come out on the streets as saving the integrity of the vote and changing the system of voting is the only way to save and change the direction and the fate of this country.
Senior office bearers Sobia Kamal, Sadia Saif, Ishtiaq Malik, Shehzadi Orangzaib, Saima Shokat, Farhan Chishtie, Naveed Ahmed, Irfan Ahmed, Shehryar Raza and Adnan Jamil were also present.
Media Cell PTI Punjab
