ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Sh. Waqas Akram Friday reiterated the party’s demand for an empowered judicial commission to investigate the alleged electoral fraud of February 8, 2024, and punish those responsible for stealing the public mandate, citing Pattan’s report.
He claimed in its shocking report titled ‘The War Against Voters’, the Pattan once again exposed the truth behind the’mother of all rigged polls’ in 2024, which has plunged the country into multi-dimensional crises.
Waqas Akram, in a statement here, said that its report, released on the first anniversary of the ‘worst rigged general election’, made a startling revelation regarding 2024 polls and unmasked the dirty roles of all those who conspired to manipulate the general elections, denying PTI’s electoral victory and fraudulently imposing rejected political figures on the nation.
He said that the report also revealed that all the king’s horses and all the king’s men were still busy saving the stolen people’s mandate by enacting the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and the 26th Constitutional Amendment, which is lamentable because the biggest poll robbery in history was carried out to impose the rejected and most corrupt clique on the nation.
In the aftermath of Pattan’s detailed postmortem report on the Feb 8 electoral mega theft, the power grabbers, bereft of public mandate, did not have any moral or ethical justification to stay in power for a single day.
Waqas alarmed that the report identified 64 new methods of electoral manipulation, coercion, and fraud used before, during, and after polling aimed at achieving “positive” results. He said that Pattan summed up the entire fraud of the electoral cycle of GE 2024 in four words: delay, deny, detain, and destroy, as portrayed on the title cover of the report.
PTI spokesman stated that democracy can only be run if the government has moral strength, whereas all the key pillars of democracy, including an independent judiciary, freedom of expression, a free media, and human rights, have been dismantled under the plot to crush the PTI and cover up election fraud.
Waqas emphasised that the report was a charge-sheet against the ECP, which miserably failed in discharging its constitutional and legal duty justly and fairly, as the institution was bought in changing the election result forms on its website till September 2024. He pointed out that unlike in the past, the report exposed that the ECP did not announce a disaggregated turnout of the polls even one year after the polls, adding that either it is a result of ECP’s ineptness or it tried to hide vote-rigging, or both.