Ramday, Chaudhry fixed polls for PML-N in Punjab: Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan on Saturday reiterated his allegation that Justice (retd) Ramday and Justice (retd) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry fixed elections in favour of Pakistan Muslim League-N in the Punjab.

Addressing a press conference here at his residence in Bani Gala, Imran Khan, flanked by other party leaders, once again demanded of the government to constitute a Judicial Commission to get to the bottom of poll ‘rigging’ in 2013 elections.

On the occasion, MNAs Riaz Futyana and Saeed Wark announced their coming into the fold of PTI. Imran Khan welcomed both into his party.

The PTI chief said the first phase of the sit-in is over and tomorrow the party would be holding its convention after which the party’s future course of action will be announced.




He said strangely forms 14 and 15 remained unavailable till recently and then they were suddenly found. “Where were they discovered from?” he asked.

Khan also expressed sorrow at the unfortunate incident during an anti-encroachment drive in Peshawar in which three people were crushed to death by a bulldozer. However, he stressed on the importance of the anti-encroachment operation, which he said was taking place only in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Imran Khan said the government blamed PTI’s sit-in whenever anything went wrong. He said today there was a party meeting but the participants could not make it due to the unavailability of petrol.

“Had the sit-in continued, the power tariff and petrol prices would have witnessed further cuts,” he said, adding, in the previous years, the people did not get CNG and today they are not even able to find petrol.

He said petrol prices have come down by 60 percent but the price of electricity is being consistently raised. “Why?”

Commenting on reappearance of blasphemous caricatures in a French magazine, Imran Khan regretted the silence of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) on the issue.

He said the entire government system of Pakistan stands dysfunctional today. “The military is fighting the war against terrorism; what is exactly the government doing?” he asked.