JI candidates move ECP against ‘rigged’ by-poll results in Karachi

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) candidates for the recently conducted by-polls of local bodies in the city have moved the Election Commission of Pakistan against what they allege “pre-poll and post-poll rigging”.

Ansarullah and Kamran Solangi -- the JI candidates respectively from Union Council 7 of Model Town and UC 7 of Korangi -- submitted forms 11 and 12 as well as other proofs of rigging to the ECP in Islamabad.

The petitioners alleged that the Pakistan Peoples Party government and the provincial election commission rigged the by-polls.

They said that according to their respective forms 11 and 12 duly signed by the relevant officials, they won the polls with a significant majority. However, form 13 and Annexure A issued by the returning officer showed the PPP candidates as successful.

The petitioners made the returning officers, the opponent candidates, which were “unlawful beneficiaries”, and the ECP record-keepers as respondents.

Meanwhile, Karachi JI emir Monem Zafar demanded of the ECP to bar the provincial chapter of the commission from issuing the “bogus” final results. He vowed to continue the struggle for justice and to uproot the “unjust regime till its logical conclusion”.