‘Rigging’ in poll results: Routine life disturbed as NDM, PTI continue protest in North Waziristan

MIRANSHAH: The routine life has come to a standstill as the workers and supporters of National Democratic Movement and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continued sit-ins and kept blocked the roads at various points to protest the alleged rigging in election results in North Waziristan tribal district for the sixth consecutive on Thursday.

The NDM and PTI workers and supporters continued their protest sit-ins at various areas, including Miranshah, Darpakhel and others, to protest the killing of their workers and alteration of the poll results on NA-40 constituency.

The local residents faced greater hardships due to blockade of the main and link roads at various points and suspending vehicular traffic in the district.

The workers and supporters of the PTI-backed independent candidate, Aurangzeb Khan, had been protesting for the last six days and demanding the government fair play in the recent polls or else they would continue the protest until the victory of the party candidate was announced.

Aurangzeb told a press conference that he had moved the Election Commission of Pakistan for stay on notification of results which, he claimed, was accepted.Also, the elders of Mohsin Dawar’s tribe Darpakhel have forwarded its charter of demands to the government. The elders have asked the government to declare the NDM candidates on NA-40, PK-103 and PK-104 winners and register a first information report against the accused involved in the firing and killing and injuring of workers and supporters of the party.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) candidate Mufti Misbahuddin was declared winner from the contingency four days after the elections.Two persons had been killed and six others, including NDM Chairman Mohsin Dawar, had sustained injuries in a firing incident when his party workers were staging a protest against the delay in election results in North Waziristan.

The workers of NDM were protesting against the election results when the firing incident took place that had left two persons dead and a former MNA among six others injured.Mohsin Dawar, who was running for the National Assembly constituency NA-40, was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Miranshah and then was referred to a hospital in Peshawar. The workers of NDM had alleged that police opened fire on the protesters to stop them from going towards the office of returning officer.