Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former premier Imran Khan on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court (SC) against the alleged rigging in general election held on February 8, 2024.
The petition was filed by senior lawyer Hamid Khan on behalf of the PTI founder.
The government, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Mutahidda Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) have all been named respondents in the plea.
In the petition, it has been demanded that a Judicial Commission (JC) comprising neutral judges be constituted to probe into rigging in the general elections.
The petitioners prayed that all consequential acts of the forming governments at the federal and Punjab levels be immediately suspended until the commission makes the probe public.”
The petition demanded orders, directions, and relief be granted in the "best interest of the nation, its electoral mandate, and Constitutional dispensation".
“The elections were held after an inordinate delay and beyond the constitutionally mandated period of 90 days in the case of both the provincial and National Assembly as given in Article 223 of the Constitution,” the petition said.
It added that the election results were manipulated and the ECP failed to hold free and fair elections.
The petition added that the only way to bring stability and ensure political and economic justice in Pakistan is to investigate and fix election irregularities.
It further said that the former ruling party was not allowed to undertake its election campaign as the party workers’ houses were raided, and nomination papers were snatched along with ECP’s decision to take the ‘bat’ symbol from PTI.
The plea maintained that there was abundant evidence in the form of video clips, media reports, and press statements by local and international media about the poll fraud, following which a judicial probe is demanded.
