‘Why did those asking us to resign not seek Nawaz’s ouster?’

RAWALPINDI: Responding to the allegations of rigging levelled against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said the ANP, PPP and JUI-F were hypocrites, as they never raised their voice against the rigging done by the PML-N.
Addressing a press conference here, Imran said the decision of the PPP, ANP and JUI-F not to participate in the APC testified to their double standards. He again offered to hold the local bodies (LB) elections afresh and criticised those who had asked the KP government to step down.
“Why should we (PTI) resign from the government? It is the ECP’s responsibility to conduct free and fair elections, and not of the provincial government,” Khan said.
“The opposition parties were responsible for rigging. We again offer to hold re-elections under the supervision of Pakistan Army. The opposition parties are asking the PTI government to resign. Why the same people are not asking Nawaz Sharif to hold re-elections? They stood with Nawaz Sharif, helped him and are now united with him.”
ANP President Asfandyar Wali, while speaking at a press conference here, had said: “In the presence of the present ruling set-up in the province, re-elections are not acceptable even if these are conducted under the supervision of the army.”
Condemning the killing of two brothers by the police in Rawalpindi, Imran said the Punjab Police were a force of killers adding that the Sharif brothers had allowed the police to kill innocent people.
“The Sharif brothers are responsible for the murder of two brothers in Rawalpindi. The killings occurred as the police were never penalised in any case,” he said.“None of those involved in the Model Town tragedy was brought to the book in the Punjab,” he said, adding that the police had been turned into mercenaries by the Sharif brothers.
The PTI chief said his party would attend the first anniversary of the Model Town massacre and participate in Qadri’s anti-government protest.“We will join the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahirul Qadri at the anniversary.”
Jamaat-i-Islami, a partner of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led ruling coalition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has also held the Chief Minister’s House responsible for the ‘worst rigging’ in the local government elections in Peshawar and demanded that the Election Commission declare the May 31 electoral process null and void in the district before ordering re-polling.