By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A senior Pakistani politician who won provincial elections in the commercial hub of Karachi last week has given up his seat, saying the vote was rigged in his favour.
Our source, NBC News, reported that Pakistan voted in national and provincial elections on February 8, but the polls were marred by accusations of rigging to defeat independent candidates backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The caretaker government and Pakistan’s election commission have rejected the allegations, saying the country has laws and systems to investigate specific complaints.
Stonix News gathered from NBC News, that Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman of the Islamist Jamat-e-Islami party was declared winner of provincial seat 129 in Karachi after securing more than 26,000 votes.
Rehman said he discovered that votes cast for Khan’s Pakistan Tekreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party-backed independent candidate Saif Bari were reduced to 11,000 from 31,000 when records of votes polled at individual polling stations were tabulated.
“Public opinion should be respected. Let the winner win, let the loser lose. No one should get anything extra.
“I will not accept it. The winner should be given the victory,” Rehman said Wednesday.
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